Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Vietnamese are preoccupied with the spectre of American intervention, Fall added. They are acutely aware of the sudden toughening of our Cuba policy last October, and fear a similar American change of heart in southeast Asia, he said. They realize that direct particapation in the conflict by the United States would inevitably provoke the Chinese Communists, and that a Communist victory would mark the beginning of another period of Chinese control in Indochina, he said...
Marty Nicolaus a Brandeis graduate student who is acting as New England representative for the Student Committee for Travel to Cuba (S.C.T.C.), declined to give the specific number of requests received from Harvard. "The group is growing dally," he commented, "but I'd rather keep it anonymous for the time being...
Operating all ever the United States, the S.C.T.C. can accept up to 500 applicants. While generally doubtful that the final group will be that big. Nicolaus voiced confidence that this summer's trip would be considerably larger than the 59 who visited Cuba last July. Probably recruitment this year will benefit from the publicity received by the previous group...
...purposes of the trip are twofold, according to newsletter issued by the S.C.T.C. "The first is to give young Americans an opportunity to see Cuba, meet its people, and draw their own conclusions. The second is to continue the fight against the State Department's Travel Ban policy...
...into the United States as a result of the last trip are still pending in a New York court. The feeling in, however, that the students' chances are considerably improved since a Federal Court of Appeals ruled three weeks ago in favor of William Worthr, a journalist who visited Cuba in 1961, on a similar charge. All 50 of the students from the last trip have had their passports declared technically void, but as none of them has attempted to leave the country the State Department action has not yet been tested...