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...alumni who were among the American hostages held captive in Iran may return to Harvard for the 1981-82 academic year. The Center for International Affairs (CFIA) has informally invited John W. Limbert Jr. '64 and Elizabeth Ann Swift '62 to become CFIA fellows. But earlier this week, neither former hostage had been officially informed of the offer--which the CFIA sent through the State Department--and neither had yet responded...
After Santo's refusal, the CFIA extended the same invitation to include any interested Cuban scholar, but the government expressed no interest and the grant funding the proposed fellowship expired on Dec. 31, 1980, Dominguez said...
...said he will probably not continue actively trying to promote visits from Cubans, although the CFIA will maintain standing invitations to the University of Havana and the Cuban National Academy of Sciences...
Dominguez, a consultant to both the U.S. and Cuban governments, called the breakdown in negotiations frustrating, since invitations such as the CFIA's "aren't costing the Cuban government anything." Other Cuban scholars invited by the CFIA, including several officials in the Cuban Foreign Ministry, have apparently wanted to accept the fellowships, since "it's much easier to study the U.S. here than long-distance," he added...
...said he detects no "sense of malice" from the Cuban government, but senses instead that it cannot decide on its policy towards American universities. Cuban interest section officials stressed that some sort of exchange in the social sciences is still not out of the question if the CFIA and Cuba can find a program of mutual interest...