For the Record (1)

September 17, 1980

Cuba has warned refugees that if they hijack airliners to return home they will face drastic sentences or be sent back to the United States for trial. Nine US airliers have been hijacked to Havana in the past five weeks by "antisocial elements of Cuban origin" armed with gasoline bombs, the official daily newspaper Granma said on its front page. The hijackers were immediately arrested and are in jail.