Word: cubans
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Harvard and Radcliffe students will be picking fruit in Cuba this summer under the joint sponsorship of the Cuban government and national Students for a Democratic Society...
Nufeld expects eight students from Harvard and Radcliffe to participate in the project, which can accommodate 300. Students must provide their own transportation to Mexico City, Mexico. The Cuban government will then pay their fare to Havana...
Participants will spend July working on citrus farms at the Isle of Youth, a former prison island now a cane field run by the Cuban Young Communist League. During August they will tour Cuba. "The program is designed to build support for the Cuban revolution on American campuses," Nufeld stated. He added that "Cubans are still afraid of an invasion by the United States, and seeing these students working with them will be very encouraging...
...make repayment). Yet, in a showdown, most would probably side with Peru because of the sad state of U.S.-Latin American relations, in spite of huge U.S. private investment. Once, other nations in the hemisphere could command U.S. attention by pointing to the threat of Castro subversion. Now, however, Cuban infiltration has failed1 and Castro has been muffled by the Russians as the Soviets seek peaceful expansion and influence in South America. One way for Latin politicians to make the U.S. notice is to go right ahead and parley with the Russians...
...guns firing darts dipped in tranquilizers to fell animals without injury be used on airline pirates. More elaborate is a recommendation to construct a bogus airport south of Miami to resemble Havana's José Martí International. Plastered with Bienvenido a la Habana signs and staffed by Cuban refugees, the airfield presumably would fool skyjackers long enough to ensure their arrest upon landing...