The World - News from July 11, 1989
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Cuba’s top government council, chaired by President Fidel Castro, turned down an army hero’s appeal of his death sentence for drug trafficking, the official news agency Prensa Latina reported. It said the 29-member Council of State was unanimous in upholding the death sentences against former Maj. Gen. Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez and three other officers.
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