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Plain sailing

Friday 11 February 1994 00:02 GMT
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A Cuban windsurfer, Eugenio Maderal Roman, 21, caught a favourable breeze and sailed his board to Florida where he asked for asylum, sheriff's deputies said yesterday, Reuter reports from Marathon, Florida. He made the 110-mile (180 km) trip from Cuba's Varadero Beach resort to Marathon in the upper Florida Keys in about nine hours.

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