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DIED. Raúl Roa García, 75, Foreign Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, whose acerbic voice enunciated Fidel Castro's scathing views of U.S. policies toward his country; in Havana. A supporter of Fulgencio Batista until they had a falling-out, Roa was named by Castro after he ousted the dictator. Despite Roa's anti-Yanqui stance, he negotiated an agreement with the U.S. in 1965 that allowed an airlift of Cuban emigrants and another in 1973 providing for Cuban punishment of airplane hijackers...
...difficult to comprehend," he said, "how a country that has characterized itself as noncolonial insists on maintaining a colony in the heart of our country. Never will we add another star to the flag of the United States." Cuba's acerbic Foreign Affairs Minister Raúl Roa joined in with a tirade against the U.S. for "its perfidy and its claws." Communist China's Huang Hua added: "U.S. imperialism has subjected the Latin American countries to aggression and enslavement...
Five players scored in double figures for Harvard. Floyd Lewis led the way with 16 points. followed by Marshall Sanders and Roa Foster with 15 each, and James Brown and Dave O'Leary with 13 apiece...
Last week Raúl Roa, Cuba's Foreign Minister, revealed what the real trouble was: by some unexplained shift, the Cubans suddenly pretended that it was false to assume that the fate of the Americans had even been discussed. The Americans would eventually be permitted to leave, allowed Roa, but only after all the Cubans who had a "right" to leave had done...
...call risked losing his job. Out they came last week, 1,000,000 strong, nearly paralyzing by their absence every government agency and private business. In the swing with Castro were his little brother Raul, who heads up the armed forces, President Osvaldo Dorticós, Foreign Minister Raul Roa, and even Castro's constant companion Celia Sanchez. But it was Castro who set the pace. "Look how I do it," he instructed his interviewer. "I begin cutting from there to here, always protecting myself from the sun. My system is more rhythmic and more systematic." Chop. Thwack. Zing...