Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today we met with officials from the Communist Party, Federation of University Students, Union of Young Communists and Federation of Cuban Women. The conference room contained a 29-seat table and a small table where our interpreters operated microphone equipment for simultaneous translation. By the door, a portable table carried ginger ales and fruit juice drinks. Three of our delegates snapped pictures of the meeting. Several of the Cubans smoked cigars. I could see that some of us had picked up the habit of smoking Cuban cigars. They had a very mild taste--sometimes almost sweet. One of the officials...
...Party-member described the defeat of the Spanish in the Spanish-Cuban-American War and how the United States "won" Cuba as a prize to the victor. The conference continued for three hours. We broke for lunch and milled about the room asking questions of the officials and of our hosts about concrete manifestations of "Yankee Imperialism." Their accounts explained how the United States maintained the economic blockade against Cuba, but how the revolutionaries had captured "gusanos"--Cuban counter-revolutionaries were called worms--who were backed by the C.I.A...
...meeting continued after lunch and lasted for another hour of questions and answers. The Cubans were interested in inflation in the United States, the manifestations of racism, North Americans' dissatisfaction with unemployment, and the U.S. working class's opinion of Cuba. After the last 15 minutes of the session, a waiter brought in more refreshments. Cigarette packages were passed around and two new boxes of cigars were opened. To complete the protocol, representatives from the Cuban officials and from our delegation stood up to exchange thanks and compliment one another...
Dwight N. Hopkins '76 spent two weeks this summer in Cuba with a special delegation of 19 black students invited by the Cuban government and orgainized by several American black student groups...
BERNARD L. BARKER, 56, one of four Cuban refugees charged in the Watergate breakin. Pleaded guilty to burglary, conspiracy and illegal wiretapping and eavesdropping; released pending appeal after serving one year of a 2½-to-six-year sentence...