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After completing their regular season the Classics are now preparing for a nine day tour of Cuba. Arranged by the U.S. State Department, the 17 member team will play three games in the Havana area and conduct three free clinics for players and coaches on the island during Harvard's spring break...
...paid to Patriotic Front Co-Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe; Rhodesian security personnel were even employed to interpret African languages and dialects. Campbell further claimed that U.S. agents had bugged "critical meetings" attended by the Front's delegates to last September's Nonaligned Conference in Havana and passed the information on to Britain...
...Castro's revolution, Cuba's Soviet-supported economy is still in perennial trouble, with resources being diverted (for strictly idealistic reasons, says Castro) to foreign ventures. Castro has just personally taken over six Cabinet posts to gain tighter control over economic affairs. In two recent meetings in Havana with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald and Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan, Castro talked of the interplay between Cuba, the U.S., Russia and the Third World. He still insisted on Russia's peaceful intention.* Excerpts from the 4½ hours of conversation...
...Shaba province] there was an unjust attempt to blame that event on Cuba, in spite of the fact that I explained to the U.S. representative here that we were absolutely opposed to what had happened. On the eve of the sixth summit [of nonaligned countries in Havana last September] the problem of the Soviet "brigade" was created. It seems to me that there are people interested in preventing the improvement of relations between the U.S. and Cuba...
DIED. Celia Sanchez, 57, the zealous Communist who fought alongside Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra during the Cuban Revolution and later became his nearly constant companion and Cuba's most powerful woman; of what the state-run radio called a "painful illness"; in Havana...