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...Harvard to audit some of the university's larger lectures, but those who can make it to Cuba can actually enroll in college courses. The CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF CUBA, in cooperation with local tourism officials, offers classes in Spanish and agricultural science to those slumming their way through the Carribean workers' paradise. Fortytwo Canadian tourists last year took courses offered at the university, located in Villa Clara province, and tourism officials intend to offer an expanded program this year. Granma Weekly Review, Havana...
...DuValier [the U.S. backed president of Haiti] poetry, praising him for his birthday, but I refused," recalls Minuty, whose family and friends were threatened and harassed after the incident. Later that year, Minuty emigrated to the United States where he currently works for General Electric and hosts a weekly Carribean radio show...
...President has few viable policy options. He seems likely to reaffirm U.S. commitment to the Carribean Basin plan the White House unveiled last spring. That program had a handful of promising long-range features designed to shore up Latin American economies. For example, most basin exports to the U.S. were to be duty-free, technology transfers were to increase and Washington was going to help bail out financially strapped countries like Honduras and Costa Rica with additional non-military aid. But most of these measures have bogged down in Congress, where senators and representatives give what gifts they...
...REAGAN TRIED to negotiate the problems in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala instead of confronting them head on with muscle, military aid could be cut significantly. Then Congress would have funds to finance the positive measures of the Carribean Basin plan. Similarly, if the U.S. reaches an agreement with Nicaragua, both Costa Rica and Honduras would likely spend less on defense and hence more on immediate economic concerns...
...Carribean, we above all seek to protect those values and principles that shape the proud heritage of this hemisphere. --President Reagan, 1982 address to the Organization of American States...