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...Daily yesterday, marked Fidel Castro's first recognition of his opposition during three decades in power. Robaina met with Ramon Cernuda of the Cuban Committee for Human Rights and Reconciliation, Alfredo Duran, a Cuban-born former chairman of the Florida Democratic Party and longtime Miami-area political activist, and Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, a guerrilla commander during the revolution. "The Cuban government has taken a step that they hadn't taken for 35 years -- to sit down and talk with the opposition and recognize its legitimacy," Cernuda said. Neither side went into details of the talks, which concerned acceleration of free...
Many share the desire of Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, founder of a more moderate and less monied organization called Cambio Cubano (Cubans for Change), to see a more measured policy toward the Havana regime, including direct negotiations with Castro to encourage a phased-in democracy. Says Menoyo: "We want the people to emerge from this with their lives, liberty and their rights. The measures that Clinton is taking serve only to make 11 million Cubans -- everyone except Castro -- suffer." He complains that his organization cannot get Washington's ear because it has less money and political influence than Mas Canosa...
...researcher was joined in his efforts by phytochemist Eloy Rodriguez of University of California, Irvine, who analyzed the chemical composition of the leaves. Rodriguez told the AASA that the oil found in one plant, a relative of the sunflower, has also been shown to be effective against breast, lung and colon cancer tumors...
...Eloy A. Haughton San Francisco...
...case history in a development that is spreading across the Northern U.S.: a movement against de facto segregation of schools. Victory in New Rochelle spurred the N.A.A.C.P. to a successful attack on de facto school segregation last year in a dozen Northern communities, from Coatesville, Pa., to Eloy, Ariz. This summer it is "mobilizing direct action" in 70 cities throughout 18 Northern and Western states. School boards are responding, and many a change will have been made by September. All kinds of tools are being tried. Samples...