Word: wheelchairs
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...School student charged that the University had overlooked a federal law requiring that newly refurbished facilities be made accessible to the handicapped. The University altered its plans to include 30 permanent seats and 65 temporary seats for the disabled, as well as reserved parking spaces and a wheelchair ramp. Contractors started work in March on the alterations, which will cost about...
...record images and thoughts on the torn-off margins of Castro's official newspaper, Granma. Some of these fragments, which were smuggled out of prison in dirty laundry and sent out of Cuba in toothpaste tubes, were published in Spanish as two books of poems, From My Wheelchair (1977) and The Heart in Which I Live (1980). Prefaced by a long introduction, a collection of some of those same poems, together with many of the prisoner's letters, was published in French as a third volume, Castro's Prisoner (1979). These works established his literary reputation internationally...
...been subjected to. Castro had told several ambassadors and statesmen who had taken an interest in my plight that until I could walk I would not leave the country. The colonels in the political police often told me that the only prisoner who could not leave Cuba in a wheelchair was me. Other detainees left the country in just such a condition, and two of them, still invalids, are now living...
...remained in that condition for many months. The wardens refused to let me walk outside the gymnasium. I learned later that they wanted to maintain complete secrecy concerning my re-education in order to win a propaganda victory with all those who, expecting me in a wheelchair, would be astonished to see me walking normally. At that time I was far from imagining that the treatment was, in fact, an anticipation of my release. I was in complete isolation. I thought this was the result of a government decision aimed at putting a stop to the campaign, which I suspected...
...colonels of the political police. They could now present me to the entire world. Two hours later I was on a plane to Paris. The resounding impact that the Cuban government expected from this event lasted only a few hours, until I explained I was no longer in a wheelchair only because I had been given the appropriate treatment...