Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dominguez said he has been trying for two years to bring one scholar, a former Cuban ambassador to Vietnam and the People's Republic of China, to the CFIA. But after long delays, he said, the scholar turned down the invitation, saying professional commitments prevented him from leaving Cuba...
...also speculated that relations with Cuba may worsen under the Reagan administration, making any academic exchange even more difficult...
...Cuba has no policy against letting scholars visit the United States, Cuban and U.S. officials in Washington said this week, adding that visits of a week or less for speeches or conferences are common. Some institutions, among them the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, have ongoing programs for the exchange of groups of researchers...
...Cuban interest section official involved with academic exchanges noted the Cuban government places heavy emphasis on contact in scientific and technical fields that will be valuable for Cuba's economic development, rather than the social sciences, Santos' area. Since opportunities for contact are limited, once Dominguez made the invitation general it probably went to the bottom of the government's priority list, 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...