Word: cuba
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...actual American experience and conditions. Such a program would break loose from the current fascination with revolutionary struggles in the Third World, and from the facile talk of violent rebellion which has accompanied it. There is not going to be a violent revolution in America; the "lessons" of Cuba, China and Vietnam have no particular bearing on this country, and the sooner that American leftists stop freaking out on Third World revolutions, the sooner serious work can begin...
...student, in a department that does not offer courses on radical theories of social change, is "qualified" to teach such a course--except through his extracurricular contacts? The section men of Soc Rel 149 are eminently qualified to teach the material they are teaching--who can teach about modern Cuba better than a student who has been there? Who can teach about the Cultural Revolution in China better than a man who spent two years in China in the midst of it? Who knows more about organizing than an organizer? This is not to say that these are the only...
...hero, Juan Bosch, whom Balaguer defeated for the presidency in 1966, remains in voluntary exile in Spain. Similarly, another potential leader, Francisco Caamaño Deó, 37, who was the military commander of the anti-establishment "Constitutionalists" during the 1965 civil war, is reportedly holed up in Cuba or The Netherlands. Balaguer also will have opposition within his own middle-of-the-road Reformista Party, which is split between his supporters and those who favor the election of Vice President Francisco Lora next time around...
Participants will spend July working on citrus farms at the Isle of Youth, a former prison island now a cane field run by the Cuban Young Communist League. During August they will tour Cuba. "The program is designed to build support for the Cuban revolution on American campuses," Nufeld stated. He added that "Cubans are still afraid of an invasion by the United States, and seeing these students working with them will be very encouraging...
Nufeld expressed no concern about State Department reprisals because the Supreme Court ruled the ban on Cuban travel unconstitutional. However, he said that since Mexico will not admit the students when they return from Cuba, they will probably sail to Montreal, Canada...