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...refused any medical care whatsoever. In 1976, as the result of pressure by Amnesty International, the Cuban government sent a report to that organization, admitting that I was suffering from "deficiency polyneuropathy," which restricted movement of my arms and legs. For more than four years all my efforts to obtain medical care and assistance were in vain...
Another man whom I met in prison had been sentenced to six years for having transcribed passages out of the Bible for his friends and colleagues. It is very difficult to obtain a Bible. Once a group of Jamaican churchmen shipped some Bibles to Cuba. These were loaded onto a truck in the port of Havana and taken to a paper factory where they were recycled and used for government publications. Once José Maria Rivero Diaz, a Protestant minister, was surprised by a guard while reading a small Bible which had been smuggled into prison. He was savagely beaten...
...admitted. The prevailing policy is to assist students only after they have taken advantage of other recognized forms of financial support, including federal and. Thus, students who prefer to be independent, rather than accept the funds their family can afford to give them, cannot expect to obtain assistance from Harvard to replace parental support. Nor can they look to the University to meet their needs if they negligently fail to make timely application to the federal government for available government support...
...guard taking down the banner as did about 50 other people at the rally at that time Dismayed, we went back to Dudley House to confront the guard. He informed us that we needed permission to put up the banner and that since it was Sunday we could not obtain permission. We pointed out that people put up banners all the time in the Yard Still, he insisted and we gave way. Then, when we asked for the banner oack he refused. When no reason was given we became quite angry. Familiar with bureaucratic harassment, I told him we could...
Though the attackers made every effort to conceal their identities, suspicion immediately centered on fanatic Jewish settlers. The apparent motive: to obtain revenge for the murder of Aharon Gross, 18, an American emigrant who was stabbed three weeks earlier as he was waiting for a bus near the market in Hebron's old Jewish quarter. So far, no one has been arrested for Gross's murder, but witnesses said his assailants were Arabs...