The World - News from Sept. 9, 1985
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Cuban forces in 1980 sank an excursion boat being hijacked to the United States by fleeing refugees, Radio Marti, a U.S. station broadcasting to Cuba, charged. The broadcast said many of those aboard the vessel were killed. Ernesto Betancourt, Radio Marti’s director, said the report was based partly on interviews with Cuban exiles. It said the hijacking occurred July 6, 1980, near the Cuban port of Matanzas, but it did not say how many of the 70 aboard died.
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