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...embarrassment to the U.S. Cuba has already earned about $100,000 in landing fees and other charges imposed on the hapless U.S. airlines. Ironically, 2,500 Americans have visited Cuba unintentionally since the end of 1967-nearly four times the number officially permitted to go there since Castro overthrew Batista in 1959. Knut Hammarskjold, director-general of the International Air Transport Association and a nephew of the late U.N. Secretary-General, visited Havana last week but kept mum about what progress he had made...
Most important perhaps, the revolution has left its impact on Cuba's youth. In his anniversary speech, Castro claimed that 300,000 youngsters now have government scholarships. Many of them would have had no such opportunity in the days of Dictator Fulgencio Batista. It is in education that Castro's social transformation, based on his idealistic vision of a "New Cuban," has been most profound. The government claims that illiteracy, 18% before the takeover, is now down to 3.2%, compared with 2.4% in the U.S. and 27% in Mexico. The figure may be exaggerated, but there...
...island, trapped and grumbling, or hopeful that their children will benefit from the sacrifices their generation has made. One of those who has stayed behind is Gilberto Morejon, a Negro who works in the modern fishing port outside Havana. "Before," he says, referring to the days of Batista, "people like me had no chance. We were discriminated against either because we were black or because we were poor. Now we are judged on merit alone." Not enough Cubans share his enthusiasm, however, to usher in Castro's Utopia any time soon. How else can a social order be explained...
...July 26, 1953, a ragtag band of 160 Cubans tried to trigger an uprising against Dictator Fulgencio Batista by attacking Santiago de Cuba's Moncada Army barracks. The chancy venture was squashed, and half of the partisans were killed. Among those imprisoned was 25-year-old Fidel Castro, a lawyer turned revolutionist, who drew a 15-year sentence. In an act more merciful than wise, Batista granted Castro amnesty after only two years. In 1956, after a brief Mexican exile, Fidel was back in Cuba with another guerrilla band; but this time he was not to be caught...
...called to the scene. Suddenly, the police started swinging their clubs and shooting. In the melee that followed, a bullet killed Edson Lima Souto, 18. Almost instantly he became a martyr, and the next day 20,000 persons marched with his body to the city's Sao Joao Batista Cemetery. Last week 16 special memorial Masses for Lima were held around the city. At the biggest service, saber-swinging horse guards rode right up onto the steps of Candalaria Church, galloping into the midst of startled students and bystanders as they left the service, forcing them to flee...