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...showcase projects instead of attacking basic problems such as poverty, educational shortcomings and land reform. In reply, Balaguer pointed to his record since his election in 1966, after the U.S. intervention. "Everything I promised has been accomplished," he said, "with the exception of museums in Santo Domingo and Santiago de los Caballeros." To win voters' loyalty, Balaguer hands out gifts at every campaign stop: new shoes, bolts of cloth, caps and 5-and 1-peso notes. It was an old-fashioned campaign typical of the man-a stodgy bachelor who neither smokes nor drinks...
...traveled to Orient, where in the Sierra Maestra, Fidel began thirteen years ago with a force of twelve men to make the Cuban Revolution. We stayed at the University of Santiago de Cuba for four days in a dorm with female medical students who couldn't understand how Americans in the U.S. could tolerate having to pay for medical care and medicines. We visited a new housing project with pastel-colored pre-fabricated panels, a free day-care center like those all over Cuba where infants from the age of 45 days are cared for while their parents work...
...last day in Oriente, we went to the Moncada barracks in the center of Santiago. On July 26, 1953, 135 Cubans with a strong love for their countrymen and a burning hate for tinhorn dictators with rich American friends tried unsuccessfully to capture the barracks in an attempt to spark an insurrection which they though would topple Batista's government. There is a huge school now in the long, pink building with seventeen-year-old bullet holes still pock-marking its walls. That day the fourth-graders had filled a bulletin board with a photo exhibit of Vietnamese children...
From the llth century through the Middle Ages, European pilgrims worked their weary way to the tomb of the supposed apostle James in the northwestern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela. In Spain, the path of St. James is a synonym for the Milky Way. Now, in the 20th century, two weary mendicants dodge cars and trucks as they retrace the ancient route...
Shortly after Chilean Airlines flight 87 took off from Santiago on a routine flight to Puerto Montt with 56 passengers, two young men ordered Captain Leonidas Medina at gunpoint to fly north to Havana. During a refueling stop, the twin-jet Caravelle's port engine failed, and the hijackers ordered the six-man crew aboard another plane. Once in the air again, Captain Medina decided he had had enough. Catching the hijackers off guard, he and his copilot wrestled the pistol away from them and locked them in the toilets. Then Medina flew back to Santiago, where police arrested...