Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like many of his colleagues, McGinn rejects the Administration's explanation of Central American instability. Rather than laying the blame on Cuban and Soviet penetration. McGinn sees the problem as one rooted in centuries of poverty and injustice. Not does he regard the analogy with Cuba as a particularly valid...
...America can thousands of working-class people go on their days off and drink beer and wave pennants and watch a baseball game." Nowhere but in America-and Japan and South Korea and the Dominican Republic and Cuba, and so what? Let her feel patriotic when she watches the Dodgers play ball. The Olympic torch had nothing to do with patriotism either; indeed, it is a symbol of supranationalism. But as the torch zigzagged among them from east to west this summer, people waved flags, cried and sang America the Beautiful...
...Poet Heberto Padilla, who had remained in Cuba after most of his family had fled, was suddenly imprisoned, committed to solitary confinement and forced to confess to consorting with imperialists. Condemned to virtual house arrest, Padilla continued working as a translator until, through American intercession, he was allowed to seek exile in the U.S. in 1980. He smuggled out the only unconfiscated copy of this manuscript under a pile of letters in his carry...
Meanwhile, yet another outspoken faculty member, Professor of Biology Ruth Hubbard '45, is continuing her crusade to win the right to travel to Cuba...
...that effort was dealt a serious setback when the Supreme Court upheld the Reagan Administration's restrictions on personal travel to the country. Hubbard and two other women sued President Reagan in 1982 after the government prevented them from going on a fact-finding tour of Cuba. Hubbard says the group will try to get the High Court to overturn its decision...