Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Locka, on the outskirts of Miami. Nevertheless, the line kept growing. Finally, it stretched to contain some 10,000 people, all waiting to get a simple but cherished piece of paper. They called it a planilla (little plan), a Government form on which they could list the relatives in Cuba with whom they hoped to be reunited...
...being a Communist in Cuba is a felony. You are trash. Every time you walk in the street, the police ask for your papers. The Soviet visitors and the tourists eat what we don't eat. They have good cigarettes and good beer. Most of the young people have stolen to live...
...never thought that Castro would let us go," says Ricardo Colas Estrada, 22, who spent seven days waiting in the Peruvian embassy and is now living with a family in Union City. "I had nothing much to eat, nothing to wear. There was no future for the young in Cuba today...
Many of the refugees have relatives here. Mrs. Martha Pina, a psychologist, welcomed her cousin Armando Pavron, 29. The son of a banker, Pavron spent seven years in a prison camp for trying to flee from Cuba. He dropped to 110 lbs. working the sugar-cane fields. He is now employed as a dishwasher at Plaza Dining in Secaucus. "Even though I have a university degree, I am happy to wash dishes," he says as he scrubs pots. "First I will learn English. Then I will go back to college. I don't want any charity...
...they have happily pocketed NBC'S cash and are pushing ahead with their own television plans. They will not have the benefit of NBC's slow-motion replays and freeze frames, but they say they are going all out with 70 mobile units and satellite transmissions to Cuba, Viet Nam and Mongolia. "They have 250 television cameras reserved for the Olympics," wisecracked an American expert on Soviet communications. "With luck, 50 of them will work...