Word: operacional
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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...opportunity to meet him came as he was wending his way toward the pool-side bar to make a short speech to the American students of Operacion Amistad, a government and Havana University sponsored program which brought 200 members of the National Student Association to Cuba free of charge. My public relations girl grabbed me firmly by the wrist, plowed through his retinue of friendly brigands and their assorted hardware, and deposited me in front of Fidel...
Havana University was saturated then, even more than today, with politics. Among the students I met it seemed that their central concern at the University was politics; studies were only incidental. One of the sponsoring organizations of Operacion Amistad, the Federacion Estudiantil Universidad (F.E.U.) has always played a significant political role in Cuba. In fact the F.E.U. held the balance of power in some of the Provisional governments after the fall of hated dictator Gerardo Machado...
...author visited Cuba this summer under the auspices of "Operacion Amistad," a program sponsored by the government and by Havana University. Planned tours took him to cooperatives and conferences, unplanned tours to the offices of journalists and government officials...
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