Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question-and-answer period that followed, Arthur MacEwan, assistant professor of Economics, said that Gorz's argument about workers' control "avoids the issue of whether the workers will choose to take it out in leisure." He mentioned Cuba as an example...
...What is little realized is the extent to which Latin Americans themselves approve radical approaches, despite such egregious failures as Castro's Cuba." Apparently, what is little realized by TIME are the reasons for this approval. Many of us do not judge Fidel's government merely on its failure to attain the promised sugar-cane crop or on its harsh food-rationing measures. Castro's achievements in education, health and in the fight against poverty are an egregious success in comparison to the achievements of most Latin American governments. Far more Latin Americans than you seem willing...
...Chileans have a keen pragmatism, as shown by your story. A while back, a conservative Chilean cousin of mine was visiting in the U.S. His name: Guevara. When I asked him if we were related to "Che," he smiled slyly and quipped, "Aquí no; en Cuba...
...West Germany; while there, he conferred with Bonn's Foreign Minister Walter Scheel and hinted that a break-through might he near in the big-power talks on Berlin, which reconvene this week. But there has also been abundant evidence of a chill in other areas, such as Cuba and the Middle East. And then there is the strange, still unresolved U-8 affair...
Black radicals, too, have made the Havana circuit. It was at a conference in Cuba in 1967 that former S.N.C.C. Leader Stokely Carmichael declared: "America is going to fall, and I only hope to live long enough to see it." Angela Davis, now fighting extradition from New York to California on charges of murder and kidnaping, called on Castro in July...