CUBANS OBTAIN TEMPORARY REFUGE IN COSTA RICA, 1998-01-08 (photo)

(L-R) Cubans Geidys Gonzalez, Juan Carlos Romero, Osmany Lorenzo, and Lenin Rivero show their temporary refuge permit that a San Jose immigration office gave them, January 8. They arrived with pitcher Orlando Hernandez and catcher Alberto Hernandez, two Cuban baseball stars who travelled to the Bahamas last month on a rickety boat from their homeland and had been granted humanitarian visas by the U.S. government, but balked at coming to the United Satates without the five other Cubans with whom they fled their Communist-ruled homeland. COSTA RICA CUBANS