European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The stars and stripes 1964 report on Cuba Castro grip termed though support has waned teacher 2 militant new Breedl entering education editors note the Fol lowing u the firs of five Dis patches by a United press International reporter who spent four weeks in Cuba on special assignment to Survey the effectiveness of its communist government and to test the mood of in ills reports Are based on conversations with hundreds of persons and his observations of life in Havana and in the in his initial dispatch he assesses the position of Fidel Castro and his by John virtue Havana up Premier Fidel backed by soviet economic Aid and a Well equipped army and civilian appears to be solidly in control of the Economy is partly because of the fled Castro Banks on and the food situation has wors ened Over the last two years and it is doubtful that Castro enjoys anywhere near the pop ular support that he commanded despite the resistance at his opponents is mainly although then Are scattered slowdowns and Many his opponents Are controlled mainly by the informer especially the defense committees located in every Block in the committees keep tabs on All comings and goings and suspicious actions in their antigovernment conversation at a restaurant table stops when the waiter goes talk stops when a car pulls up at an inter Section for fear someone in the next car might it was knowledge gained from such sources which resulted in the underground roundups and Seiz ures of arms during the Bay of pigs invasion Iii it is said the underground Hus not Castro said recently special counter insurgent forces had wiped out guerrilla bands operating in Las Villas and Matanzas the Only areas where the exiles were believed to have been unlike his Fulgencio spares no pains in tracking Down armed because of these there is a widespread feeling among antigovernment cubans in diplomatic circles thai no internal uprising nor exile invasion will overthrow they feel that Only a hacked invasion would but that there will not be one because the United slates had its Chance during the missile crisis of the Antl castrites appear to have lost considerable full in the cuban exile especially those in the exiles live in an other is a common they have completely lost touch with the major complaint is that the exile groups Are frag have no program for governing and have produced no Leader around whom the people can there Are also complaints of exaggerated and false exile reports of what is happening in these reports Boomerang on the exiles because Castro lets them knowing that they probably will be aired by Miami radio stations or the voice of America and picked up by cubans who know the to be incorrect All exile Sci urls As far As the cubans arc the embargo is hurting especially in the area of spare parts for most industries were equipped with the shortage of parts also manifests itself As cars Are air conditioners break Down and ruler systems Slop but there is general agree ment that the even if it were twice As would not by itself topple the government us Long As the so Viet Union continues to Aid the Iron curtain or Western countries provide the heavy equipment and machinery for cuban Industry and while the average cuban does without or improvises on the consumer goods that used to come from the United Castro made overtures to the United Stales Currier this year in order to get the embargo castros feelers to the United Stales were said by diplomatic sources to embody a Promise to Slop subversion in the hemisphere and to open talks on compensating seized but As Long us Russia maintains its economic time is on the Side of the 38yearold Premier because he has banked on the coming which will owe everything to the the students arc the elite of cuban especially the the scholarship Stu dents who fill the Beautiful Homes Leftin havanas Mara mar and veda do sections when their owners fled into educated in communism dialectical they will be the administrators and technicians of the in the Cuba re Mains an armed guns along the male con drive in Havana Point out to where a warship is constantly in sight on the the skies Over Havana Are alive with powerful besides the armed believed to total about than one million other cubans in this country of seven million have received Mili tary training and were consid ered Loyal enough at the time to be Given military last Oklahoma to solutions awarded teaching Eero Elf Scales to Young men my Hodge but at of these Young people became Tea Chat in the others went by Hodenfield Washington an abundant Supply sons problems were easy 10 solve in colonial if you needed a you Sim ply went Down to the Dock and bought one off an incoming ship from the Day of the indentured working out u term of virtual slavery in the new Are Long but Many of to Days teachers believe their Sta Tus has not improved much Over the and this is the Basic cause of the teacher rebellion sweep ing the growing conviction of teachers that they will always be treated As Sec on class citizens unless they take matters into their own Oklahoma is a Case in last Oklahoma Vot ers went to the polls and rejected four slate wide propositions dealing with one would have provided a teacher salary Oklahoma teachers reacted by taking a on Day professional and carrying their protest to the slate legis unless the state government acts on their they May strike late this school or Boycott the classrooms next the starting salary for a teacher in Oklahoma is a the average salary is in the 50 this is for a nine month school but teachers Point out that they Are expected logo to College during the summer and better pay depends on advanced How about a Young Man starting out asks Oliver state superintendent of schools in How does he pay his rent and his grocery Bill on a deductions i just dont see How he can do in afraid were in for plenty of trouble if something substantial int done Tat our Oklahoma also Points up the ludicrous fact thai there is a Leacher shortage in u nation to other states to entered some other were training plenty of just wont into v salaries Are the major Factor in the teacher Bat there Are Many others Bohol debarred Strug Gwi by tween the Alcio and National education the a professional Gani Patlon which abhors or Hus become singly militant in recent Yean to combat the Appeal of the new Breed of teach better prepared than and including a larger proportion of Oklahoma has the highest level of professional preparation in the nation even in Rural areas virtually every teacher has College changing society with a new respect for it used to be thai if a teacher didst want to it probably took a Blue Collar Job today College degree is much in de Mand in other some extent at the Success of the negro in us j Battle for Revll Many 3 teachers have if negro ran stand up and feb jct for his Why we Success of the teachers Union in getting a Pali raise for new York City and the Success of the Aba 3 in improving the lot of uts schools and Ihler next the political Arena Castai try Mihelj Best to Uve by also ignoring most exile to be Given with by system and keep out raids except training b of Castro therefore puts in doubt next the Black Market european edition army Navy air Force col Ridgway Smith Usa peking fears spread of Viet War by John Cantwell Hon Kong a peking appears to fear the United states in supporting the anti guerrilla War in South Vietnam will attack communist North Vietnam and fighting will spread to red and so peking is using the possible threat to build up its Home front militia peking reintroduced a drive to buildup its mall la several weeks the drive had been introduced twice before when communist China feared attack from peking originally claimed a target of 100 million men and women for its mass mall la this originally made in has been sharply reduced since and there is no present estimate of peking mall la the latest buildup was announced it a meeting in peking last party Leader Mao president Liu Shao Premier Chou Enlal and other top chinese communist officials attended the Mao told the meeting that the United slates and other imperialists were pushing communist China they Are doing this in such a Way that we must Deal with them Mao we require in addition to mighty regular armed a tremendous number of militia i when the imperialists invade they will find difficulty in moving a single Western observers Here be Lieve maos reference to imperialists invading communist China indicates peking con Cern that an attack on North Vietnam could spread to red they believe peking is con Vinced that the United states will carry the War from South Vietnam into the this uneasiness was apparent even before the ambassador to South Maxwell Taylor said sunday that air raids on communist bases and Supply lines in North Viet Nam and Laos could contribute to Victory Over the red guerrillas in 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