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...financial cost of that involvement is underwritten almost entirely by the Soviet Union (see box). And not just young men apply for African duty. Says Vilma Espin, 46, head of the Federation of Cuban Women and wife of Fidel's brother, Defense Minister Raul Castro: "At the height of the war in Angola, we had thousands of letters from women of all ages, including ones in their 70s, asking to go as cooks. One of the most important changes in Cuba since the revolution is that women who were afraid to go out of their houses 20 years...
Born. To Raul Castro, 28, sideburned brother of Cuba's Dictator Fidel and boss of Cuba's armed forces, and Vilma Espin de Castro, 29, a guerilla fighter in Santiago during the civil war: their first child; in Havana. Name: Deborah (the nom de guerre of Vilma). Weight...
...Juliet cap of pearls; the groom wore a .45 automatic and a ponytail hairdo. Some 2,500 guests thronged the palm-thatched dance-hall restaurant of Santiago's suburban Rancho Club Motel. Thus one afternoon last week Raul Castro, 27, rebel commander in Oriente province, married Vilma Espin, 28, onetime chief of the rebels' Oriente underground in a civil ceremony performed by a Santiago rebel attorney...
Last week, as the wedding guests drained 40 cases of bubbly hard cider provided by Papa Espin, a Bacardi distillery official, a chorus of little girls insisted: "A kiss, a kiss." Bashful Raúl leaned over, gave Vilma a peck; then the couple drove off for a one-night honeymoon, guarded by rebel gunners. Among the guests at the wedding were four of the U.S. mining technicians who had been kidnaped by Raul and Vilma. They chipped in for a silver ice-bucket and gave it to the newlyweds with a good-luck card...
Married. Raúl Castro, 27, younger brother and top lieutenant of Cuban Hero Fidel; and Vilma Espin Guillois, 28, sometime (1955-56) student of chemical engineering at M.I.T. and underground organizer in Cuba's revolution; in Santiago, Cuba (see THE HEMISPHERE...