An appeals court in Caracas, Venezuela, upheld the acquittal of anti-Castro leader Orlando Bosch on charges of planning the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73. Bosch has been

jailed for 11 years, and Venezuelan authorities are expected to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court. The appeals court upheld 20-year sentences for two co-defendants on homicide charges.

The plane, on a flight from Venezuela to Cuba, blew up after a stop in Barbados. Bosch, 59, a Cuban exile and bitter foe of Cuban President Fidel Castro, maintains he is innocent. MORE TO

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