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Then came the triumph of the Revolution. As Lazara remembers. "Our people always waited for that success. When Fidel was in the Sierra Maestra, all the people knew he was there, and waited for night to listen to the news on the underground radio, about the battles and all the activities of the Revolution. When Fidel and his comrades won, all the people went to the streets and waited...
...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...
Another ready assumption is that nature is endlessly bountiful. In fact, the supply of both land and resources is finite. Martin Litton, a director of the Sierra Club, says: "We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones." Litton reaches this alarmist conelusion: "We've already run out of earth, and nothing...
...apartment. He is only reminded of his dead mother by a chance conversation overheard in a pub. "Peter can talk about nothing," a girl complains about her absent boy friend, "but- the Ashes."* The urn is recovered, but not before Auntie's servant (and lover), an enterprising Sierra Leone black named Wordsworth, has emptied Mother out and replaced her with some hot pot. The police get into the act and the chase runs from London to Paris to Istanbul, and finally to Paraguay. Greene is not only putting the reader on. He is putting himself on. We are back...
...addition, volunteers will distribute literature and circulate petitions for specific legislation- although the Conservation Club has not yet determined the exact content of the petition. Commoner will conduct a seminar, and the Conservation Club will show films loaned by the Sierra Club and the Audubon Society...