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U.S. keeps
Cuba visit
ban in force
By THEODORE A. EDIGER
Copley News Service
MIAMI - The United States
is keeping the doors shut on
travel to and from Cuba, in
sharp contrast with its new
doors-ajar policy toward an
other Communist nation, Chi
na.
State Department sources
confirmed that a taboo on visits
to Premier Fidel Castro’s is
land has been extended to
March, 1973.
At the same time, the United
States slammed the door on
four Cuban motion picture pro
ducers who wanted to appear at
the recent First New York Fes
tival of Cuban Films. Denial of
their visas was in line with a
strict policy of keeping Cubans,
other than refugees or United
Nations people, out of the
United States.
If you are an American and
are thinking of visiting Cuba
despite the restrictions, your
chances probably are better —
so far as the U.S. government
is concerned — than for a Cu
ban who wants to slip into the
United States. In the first
place, the U.S. ban on travel to
Cuba allows for exceptions to
scientists, journalists, schol
ars, some others.
True, some of Premier Fidel
Castro’s sympathizers are said
to have reached the United
States posing as refugees. But
on the other hand, many Amer
icans, such as black militants,
whom Cuba’s regime encour
ages to rebel in the United
States, have been making trips
to Cuba via a third country.
Then there are student
junkets, usually routed to Cuba
via Canada or Mexico. Many
hundreds of collegians from
throughout the United States
forming such groups, called
Venceremos Brigades for the
Castro revolutionary slogan
meaning ‘ ‘we shall overcome, ’ ’
have made it to Cuba despite
official U.S. frowns.
These students have been
cutting sugarcane, Castro’s No.
1 crop. Surprisingly, the latest
Venceremos group was put to
work building houses.
That probably was a practi
cal move since inexperienced
kids can’t do a professional job
with the machete but can ham
mer nails to help alleviate an
acute Cuban housing shortage.
The official Cuban radio,
monitored in Miami, said the
latest U.S. student contingent
included 33 men and 21 women.
The broadcast didn’t say how
they entered Cuba.
The State Department used
to revoke passports of Ameri
cans going to Cuba in defiance
of regulations, but Supreme
Court rulings have eliminated
that.
The U.S. refusal to admit the
four Cuban moviemen was
questioned by Senate Foreign
Relations Committee Chair
man J. William Fulbright of
Arkansas. The State Depart
ment then wrote Fulbright that
the move was “consistent with
our established practice.”
The coordinator of the film
festival, Michael Myerson, said
in a letter published in New
York that the visa refusals
were out of line since “the
President visits the Peoples
Republic of China, against
which there has been a similar
unofficial cultural blockade of
the past.”
Myerson continued: “The de
nial of the visas can only be in
terpreted as a subterfuge for
continuing the cold war in the
hemisphere.”
A government spokesman
said the travel ban to Cuba dif
fers from the former one to
China because it is part of the
hemisphere-wide campaign to
isolate the Castro regime. He
suggested that Washington as a
leader of the anti-Castro effort
should not undercut inter-
American sanctions by lifting
travel restrictions.
Two of Cuba’s best-known
cinematographers, Alfredo
Guevara and Santiago Alvarez,
were among those denied visas.
Cuba’s film industry is a
modest effort. What there is
leans hard toward putting the
Castro revolution in a favor
able light.
Movies supplement a far
reaching broadcast program
and publication of periodicals
and booklets in divulging the
“glories of communism” under
Castro and the dismal life un
der “imperialism” in the
United States.
A brochure about the New
York film festival said: “The
young Cuban film makers got
together to bring to the Cuban
people and to the world a vision
of the new Cuba, its struggles,
its triumphs, its art and culture
... in order to show the efforts
that the Cuban revolution has
made toward creation of a new
society, a new man.”
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