r Wednesday, October 1 6, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Cuba: A study in contrasts HAVANA (R) - Life In Cuba, 1968, is a study in contrasts. The average Cuban is spend- ing more money than ever before for less food. At the same time no one is starving. While having to spend m o re and more for food,- many house- hold expenses for the average Cuban have been eliminated by the government of Fidel Castro. Education is free and the average Cuban spends less than his coun- terpart in any other country for hospitalization and other social services. # The high cost of eating, how- ever, is tempered by the fact many household expenses have been eliminated under the Castro gov- ernment. Most medical service is free; All education is. So are pub- lic telephones, funerals, marriages, sports events and many cultural activities. Rent is free or minimal. Income taxes are almost a thing of the past. A new law guarantees work- ers who decline overtime pay 100 DIAL 5-6290 Shows at 1,3, 5, 7, 9 p.m. iRe PAUL NEWMAN production of rachel, *eCOMING z Fidel Castro fuse overtime pay, to work 12- hour shifts for eight hours pay and to volunteer for payless week- end duty. High school students spend 45 days yearly in the fields. Havana University students work one weekend out of four in the coun- try. Castro has indicated when the coffee harvest comes much of the labor will be done by the country's students. He explains the government has priorities which must be fol- lowed if the country is to leave underdevelopmentby 1975. Prime among these priorities is the goal of 10 million tons of sugar production in 1970. This would be almost double this year's output and a record for Cuba. The government also is setting up costly irrigation projects, build- ing hundreds of earth dams, con- structing highways, hunting for oil, boosting nickel production, manufacturing farm machinery and finishing three big thermal electric plants. Some observers contend the real struggle going on in Cuba today is ideological, not economic. They say Cuba's Communist allies, namely Russia, may let her floun- der but never fail. Whether there is an economic breakthrough, they say, depends on whether Castro can move the masses, not just his militant followers who run the country. In building this ideology, Cas- tro stresses that material incen- tives corrupt man. He cites his favorite target, the United States, as an example of how materialism degrades. Governmefnt-controlled news media echo the line with everything available backing the Cuban contention U.S. society is sick. percent of their salaries if they are disabled on the job. As life grows harder and the shortages mount, the government calls on Cubans to spend more and more time in production to see that time and past years dis- appointments are not repeated. More than one million persons were mobilized last spring for the sugar harvest. Thousands a n d thousands have been called to weekend voluntary labor in agri- culture and construction. The Young Communist League has recruited 40;000 young men and women for three years' agri- cultural; work in Camaguey Pro- vince. Officials say they will have 10,000 more soon and the total will reach 100,000 in 1969.. Communist party officials, meanwhile, have pressed t h e i r campaign to get workers to re- the news today yb ) Te Asso 'za/d Press aid Celli-Sc Pres s en fce Writing at gravity zero The effect of full weightlessness is demonstrated in this picture beamed back from Apollo 7 yester- day. Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. reaches for a pencil he released, which floats in front of the capsule's instrument panel. RIOTING IN LONDONDERRY: Britain faces Irish problem after period of relative calm I I I Open: 11 A.M.-2 A.M. Above Ad Worth 25c toward Dinner (One per Customer) "AN EXCELLENT FILM- THOUGHTFUL, MOVING AND FAITHFUL !" -Life Magazine LONDON (P) - The Irish are again posing a problem to the British after nearly half a century of relative peace. England's decision in 1920 to partition Ireland into a free state which became today's Irish Re- public and a province in Northern Ireland still linked to Britain end- ed decades of killings and a bloody civil war. However, the war never really ended. There have been occasional outbreaks since the partition, not- ably in Belfast four years ago. But it took the savage rioting in Londonderry last weekend to rouse the nation. The incident proved how thin the peace is, at least in the North, apd stirred protests in London and Dublin. Prime Minister Harold Wilson has been urged for months to en- sure a greater degree of demo- cracy for Northern Ireland. Civil rights campaigners, particularly strong among the Roman Catholic minority, demanded the."one man, one vote" principle in local elec- tions; an end to gerrymandering and ward rigging and the intro- duction of Britain's race relations act to fight discrimination. Wilson, like other British prime ministers before him, could do little beyond having the 1920 Gov- ernment of Ireland Act revised. That would raise basic constitu- tional issues. Northern Ireland is self-governing so far as home af- fairs are concerned. It controls its own police, has its own govern- ment and Parliament in Belfast. The North's prime minister, Terence O'Neill, has given Wilson and his Whitehall advisers a forthright warning not to inter- fere. Any attempt to do so would be self-defeating,, he said. You don't join a political party in Northern Ireland; you're borne into it. If your parents are Protestants of Scotch-Irish descent like two- thirds of the population, then you support the ruling Unionist party. Your flag is the Union Jack, your party color orange. You may join one of the militant Orange lodges and march through the streets with drawn sword to protect your banner from "the' Papists." If your parents are Roman Catholics, you're a Nationalist, your color is green, your favored flag may be the Irish Republic's tricolor. You're in the minority and sometimes made to feel it. A few may cross these strictly drawn politico-religious lines, But a Protestant Nationalist risks meeting discrimination in business and at home. And, until a few years ago, no Catholic was ever admitted to the Unionist party. The few who cross over are re- garded with suspicion. In the ancient walled city of Londonderry all the usual North- ern Irish tensions are heightened. It is only a few miles from the Irish Republic, and that tends to keep the Protestants nervous. It even has a Roman Catholic ma- jority within; the city. They talk in Londonderry about the famous siege of Derry as if it took place yesterday. That was in 1688 when Protestants held out for 105 days against the forces of Roman Catholic King James II until relieved by sea. The same sort of siege mentality rules in the Orange lodges now. They feel under constant threat. Roman Catholics outnumber Protestants on Londonderry's local electoral register by 13,515 to 9,235. Yet, because 10,000 of them live in one town ward, the city is run by a council composed of 12 Unionists to 8 Nationalists. Catholic civil rights fighters claim that the Unionists -use the local housing shortage to keep control. Less than a score of hous- es have been built by the city in three years, they say, and some families have been on the waiting list 17 years. NEW YORK TEACHERS continued their third strike in five weeks, crippling the city'school system and keeping more than a million pupils out of class. No pact was in sight between the United Federation of Teachers, representing 48,000 teachers, and the city school board, as union president Albert Shanker warned the strike could last "a month or longer." Rhody A. McCoy, the administrator of the black and Puerto Rican decentralized Ocean Hill district which has been the focus of the strikes, said meanwhile he is exploring the possibility of'running the district as a "private school district, financed by company funds and open to the public." The union teachers have declared they will strike until guaranteed safety from physical harassment, "acts of ter- rorism and violence" against 16 teachers previously ousted from Junior High School 271. INVOLUNTARY SECOND TOURS OF VIETNAM face 24,000 Army and Marine Corps servicemen. U.S. forces are reassigning to Vietnam 24,000 career ser- vicemen - not draftees - if they have been away from the war zone for at least two years. Previously, few nonvolunteers have faced returning to Vietnam, but the length of the war, high turnover of personnel and tight supply of seasoned offi- cers and non-commissioned officers have necessitated the change. The Army contingent will include 4,950 officers, and 12, 900 enlisted men. The Marine returnees will include 1,000 of- ficers and 5,000 enlisted men. The Air Force, which has no official policy on intervals before second tours, announced it will return 150 noncommis- sioned officers to Vietnam duty. * 0 0 COMMUNIST CHINA'S PRESIDENT LIU SHAG-CHI, one of Chairman Mao Tse-Tung's strongest opponents, has been stripped of all his official functions in the Party, Peking radio reported yesterday. Since 1966, Liu has come under bitter attack by pro-Mao- ist forces as an "antirevolutionary revisionist" in the "great ptroletarian cultural revolution. Reports periodically have in- dicated Liu's loss of power, but none thus far claimed he had actually been ousted from office. Liu became president in 1959 after an internal party strug- gle stripped Mao of that post, but' left him chairman of the Communist party, with Liu second in party command. 0 " UN SECRETARY GENERAL U THANT disclosed yes- terday he has asked the big four powers to hold a summit conference. Thant said he has sent identical letters to the United States, Soviet/Union, Britain and France prpposing that their foreign ministers meet to discuss strengthening the United Nations and rules of international conduct. Thant suggested a full summit meeting could follow some time in 1969. A possible'agenda for the meetings would include discu- sions on the financial crisis in the UN,,peacekeeping opera- tions, limited aspects of disarmament, and discussion of prob- lems in the Middle East. UN spokesmen said that although Thant had not receiv- ed any formal replies, the French, British and Russian foreign ministers reacted favorably. There was no reaction yet from Secretary of State Dean Rusk. * 0 0 APOLLO 7's SUCCESS has almost assured the U.S. will attempt to orbit three men around the moop by Christmas. A reliable source said yesterday the flight of the three- man spacecraft is going so well that high National Aeronaut- ics and Space Administration officials are meeting this week to firm up a date for a flight around the moon. One report sets December 21 as launch day. The only obstacle that might block a circumlunar space shot for Apollo 8, the next manned mission, would be prob- lems occurring later in the 11-day flight of Apollo 7. 0 " . SOVIET PRESENCE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA would be legalized under terms of an agreement made with Krem- lin leaders, Czech sources reported yesterday. The-agreement, which comes eight weeks to the day after the Soviet invasion, is unofficially reported to provide for gradual withdrawal of some Warsaw pact troops, but to au- thorize the presence of other occupation forces for some time. When troop withdrawal starts, the bulk of the contin- gents from East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria is expected to leave..Regular Soviet troops - some 50,000 to 100,000 - will probably remain. Czech sources had no details about the treaty, but report- ed that although the wording is formulated, it will not be signed for seyeral days. I I .OR " A PARAMOUNT PICTURE."S.M.A. WED., THURS. & FRI. 7:00 & 9:00 P.M. CIVIL ENGINEERS WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS Highway engineering is a re- warding career and the State of Washington is an exciting place to work and live. Every phase of highway civil engineering is employed in the Washington Highway Department. Representatives from the Wash- ington Department of Highways will be on the University of Mi- chigan campus, Thursday, Octo- ber 24, 1968 interviewing civil engineers. Interested students please sign up for an interview at your campus engineering placement office. Are you inferested in working in Europe! Are you interested in working in Europe? We have student job opportunities in Britain, Germany, Bel- gium, France, Holland and all of Scandinavia. We provide assistance to those who would like to do something constructive while learning a language and meeting and working with students from other countries.For, full particulars inquire at the student newspaper office. (Dept. of National Advertising). I Is Tonig It and Every Wednesday at the A HOOT NIu have? Every minute of every day, you choose what you think. And the thoughts you choose, determine your experience. Thinking spiritually can bring more good into your life. Hear this lecture by Jane 0. 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