31.   Brothers to the Rescue notably carries out missions to pick up Cuban refugees fleeing the island at sea.

32.   Canseco said he promised himself he would visit the camps after seeing news reports of Cubans trying to flee the island aboard rafts and flimsy boats.

33.   Castro has blamed the economic hardships his country is now enduring on the embargo and said the economic crisis is the reason people want to flee the island.

34.   It also houses Cuban refugees who have been rescued after fleeing the island.

35.   Police have barred Lu from leaving Taiwan, but some newspapers said it was feared he had fled the island before the theft came to light.

36.   Ratsiraka left Madagascar last Thursday for Paris but denied that he had fled the island for good.

37.   The agreement will end the refugee status of the Guantanamo Cubans while discouraging others from fleeing the island.

38.   The court also indicted five other foreigners who had worked for the company, but all had fled the island, prosecutors said.

39.   The incident marks the third time this year that Cubans hoping to flee the island for the United States stole a tugboat from a state-owned company.