The World - News from Sept. 26, 1986

Cuba expelled two Havana-based Western news agency correspondents and reportedly arrested three Cuban members of an independent human rights organization. The Cuban news agency Prensa Latina reported the expulsions of Robert Powell of the Reuters news agency and Noel Lorthiosis of Agence France-Presse. The report indicated that the expulsions, for violating “the dignity of Cuba,” resulted from stories written by the two after they interviewed Elizardo Sanchez Santa Cruz, one of three members of the Cuban Human Rights Committee reportedly jailed.