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...long-term goal, in theory, is to change Cuba. The SmithKline deal led to long and apparently educational meetings between U.S. executives and Cuban officials such as Concepcion Campa, 48. Campa is director of the state-run Finlay Institute, the Havana bio-research facility at which she created the meningitis vaccine. But she's also a communist Politburo member, and she got a crash course in capitalist haggling during the negotiations, as well as a closer, less ideological understanding of Americans. "It was hard to make sense of all those Anglo-Saxon contract clauses," she told TIME. "But we appreciated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba's New Look | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...list of influential yummies includes Concepcion Campa, a 41-year-old biochemist who runs the Finlay Institute, where she helped develop a new meningitis vaccine. She serves on the Politburo along with Abel Prieto, 42, whose casual long hair belies his importance as head of the Cuban Writers and Artists Union. At the communist newspaper Juventud Rebelde, the 35-year-old director Jesus Martinez has tried to inject a livelier style for its young readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Come the Yummies | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

...sight of thousands of Black Cubans and Black Haitians at the borders. As Newsweek put it, "The suspicion lingers that if 15,000 white Poles fleeing the crackdown showed up in New York Harbour, they would not be shipped off to Krone or Fort Allen [two Haitian detention campa...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: The Haitian Problem | 5/7/1982 | See Source »

Opinion on a controversial University matter has not been so solidify one-sided among the various Harvard constitute????? faculty and Stuart-in two years. This consensus has ??treed the expectations of pro-Campa?? GM students, who await the Corporation decision...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Corporation to Vote Today On General Motors Proxy | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

...Mena, Ark., while the Campa Bros, circus trumpeted through its one-night stand, nine-year-old Maria Campa, granddaughter of one of the circus owners, was clawed and chewed to death by a young lion considered so tame he was tied to a stake outside his cage. Next day, as the Campa circus trundled along the rain-slicked road toward Mount Ida, two trucks overturned. Nine beasts scampered into Ouachita National Forest. A pursuing posse brought down one of two escaped leopards and recaptured a tame black bear and a rhesus monkey. The other leopard prowled all night before being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Battle of the Species | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

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