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...Communist countries are experimenting with economic reforms of one kind or another, Cuba has chosen to move in precisely the opposite direction. Within the past year Fidel Castro has pulled the plug on the country's once-thriving system of free-market farmers' stands and a program that allowed Cubans to build, buy and sell private homes on the open market, two of the touches of capitalism that he has permitted to take root in 28 years of rule. TIME Correspondent Laura Lopez visited Cuba with an American delegation from Indianapolis, host city for this year's Pan American Games...
...barely 8 on a Saturday morning, one of the two weekend days each month that Cubans are required to show up for work. The downtown Havana bus stop was already crowded. A foreign visitor buying a newspaper at a nearby stand offered a dollar bill to the vendor, a wizened and near blind old man. He eagerly accepted it and carefully counted the change in Cuban centavos. Moments later, a policeman, obviously summoned by the crowd, was glaring sternly at the vendor. Dollar transactions are not allowed in Cuba, an onlooker explained. The old man ruefully handed the greenback...
...Cuban Exile Writers--Lorraine Roses, Coolidge Hall Room 2, Harvard, noon...
...accept the editorial's assumption that any betrayal of public trust is reason enough for impeachment, then we should have impeached President Kennedy after the Cuban Missile Crisis. During those 13 days in October 1962, President Kennedy reassured the American public that under no circumstances would we trade American missiles for the Soviet missiles in Cuba. Yet, he sent his brother Robert to the then Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin to offer just such a trade. Kennedy offered to remove our Jupiter missiles from Turkey if the Soviets would take their IL-28s out of Cuba. The deal was concluded...
While the White House has been in and out of more political battles than one can count in the past half a dozen years, the armies of the industrialized world have been mercifully underemployed. There have been no superpower standoffs, no new Viet Nams in Central America, no Cuban missile crises or Afghanistan invasions, no oil embargoes. There have been failures like Lebanon and frustrations like Nicaragua. Yet a significant number of experts believe that even if Reagan does not manage to negotiate a reduction in nuclear weapons, the grim specter of World War III, an image relished by demagogues...