Byline: Associated Press
PANAMA CITY About 1,000 Cuban refugees, angry at the slow pace of finding them permanent homes, threw stones at U.S. soldiers Thursday, injuring about 60 of them. An unknown number of Cubans also were injured.
The refugees, held in jungle camps near the Panama Canal, damaged 12 military vehicles when they broke through a barbed-wire fence encircling their camp. Several refugees escaped.
The United States has granted visas to some Cuban families being held in the camp, but said others in the camps weren't automatically entitled to entry.
About 8,500 refugees who fled Cuba this summer were taken to four camps in …
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