2 The Dailv Tar Heel Wednesday. April 9. 1980
Castro admits problems in Cuba
WASHINGTON (AP) "We are
sailing in a sea of difficulties. We have
been in this sea for some time, but the
shore is far away."
In that way, Cuban President Fidel
Castro candidly acknowledged last
December that his revolution had fallen
on hard times. ! '
At the time, there were reports of
increased street ( crime, worker
absenteeism and black market activities.
In addition, pamphlets and posters
denouncing the regime began to appear in
Havana. There also has been a dramatic
rise in the number of Cuban "boat
people" arriving in the United States.
But nothing has dramatized popular
disaffection for the regime quite so
strongly as has the appearance of
thousands of Cubans seeking political
asylum on the grounds of the Peruvian
Embassy in recent days.
The inundation of the embassy was
touched off a week ago when a Cuban
policeman was killed in cross fire while
six Cubans seeking asylum were trying to
crash their bus onto the embassy
grounds. The refugees came in droves a
few days later when the government
withdrew its security guards from the
embassy and announced that those
seeking asylum would be allowed to
leave.
In truth, U.S. officials say, economic
difficulties have spread throughout the
Caribbean over the past few years. And,
as Castro points out, Cuba, despite its
difficulties, is well ahead of the rest of the
Caribbean in health care and education.
On the other hand, no Caribbean
country has received foreign assistance
on the scale that Cuba has been receiving
from the Soviet Union currently about
$8 million a day.
But Soviet aid has not offset a number
of problems affecting the Cuban
economy. In a speech to the Cuban
National Assembly last winter, Castro
said that much of the country's tobacco
crop had been wiped out by disease. In
addition, "plant rot" was threatening
Cuba's vital sugar harvest. The U.S.
economic embargo also is frequently
blamed for Cuban economic troubles.
Cuban officials admit, however, that
these factors are not entirely to blame for
Cuba's economic plight. Castro's
brother, Raul, in an unusually frank
speech last fall, also criticized Cuba's
workers for "lack of discipline and
control, irresponsibility, negligence and
cronyism."
Some U.S. officials also believe that
the sense of economic frustration in Cuba
may have been intensified since relatives
from the United States began visiting the
island.
Moie than 100,000 Cuban-Americans
visited Cuba last year, the overwhelming
majority enjoying a higher standard of
living than the average Cuban.
According to the officials, who asked
not to be identified, the success stories
recounted by the visiting relatives no
doubt had a considerable impact, on
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;Castro's subjects who, with the
revolution in its 22nd year, still have to
put up with long lines and strict rationing
to meet even their most fundamental
needs.
From page 1
The Health Consumer Organization of
Orange and Chatham counties will
sponsor three forums on health insurance
beginning tonight at 8 in 231 Rosenau
Hall.
A discussion of existing health
insurance coverage in North Carolina
will open the series tonight, followed by a
debate on national health insurance on
April 16 and a presentation on prepaid
health plans on April 23.
"Our basic purpose is to help the local
residents obtain information that will
help him or her to make intelligent
decisions on health insurance," said Betye
Carey, president of the Health Consumer
Organization.
Washington
Tonight's forum will feature several
area health officials including Richard
Donnan of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of
North Carolina and Joyce Bynum,
patient relations manager at N.C.
Memorial Hospital.
Carey said many questions involving
health insurance will be discussed. "How
do commercial policies compare with
Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and can the
state Department of Insurance really help
you with a complaint about health
insurance," she said.
Admission is free and the last 30
minutes of each forum will be reserved for
questions and comments from the
audience.
From page 1
"Most people were kind of grumbling
saying they'll give all the money to New York
and the other big cities and none will be left for
smaller towns," Town Council Member
Marilyn Boulton said.
K. awake said at least one N. C. senator was
not very receptive'to local concerns.
"Jesse Helms was downright rude," she said.
"He said, 'Oh, so you've come to Washington
looking for money. Well, good luck."
Following trooping off to Washington with
their colleagues, Howes and Carrboro Mayor
Robert Drakeford each made another trip to
Washington. As a member of the league's
committee on economic development, Howes
testified before the Senate subcommittee on
Housing and Urban Affairs. Drakeford, who
holds membership on many national boards
and is a frequent visitor to the capital, spoke
before the House Appropriations Committee.
Drakeford said he tried using his visits to the
city to lobby for money for Carrboro.
anything like Paris. It was much worse than
this."
1 continue to watch the show. Each man
does three numbers. One man comes out
dressed as Clark Kent, strips down to a
Superman suit and then finally down to a G
string. I'm getting a little bored.
A woman next to me explains that she and
her friends came to the show only for the
novelty of it. "Believe it or not, we're all
business professionals with incomes over
$30,000 a year," she says. "My husband doesn't
know I'm here. I told him I had to go to a
business meeting.
" I think if you examined the family values of
the women in the room you'd find they're very
upstanding," she says. "Women have been
exploited for so long, it's interesting to see how
they react when the shoe's on the other foot."
It's getting hard to see through the cigarette
smoke, but I can make out the figure of a
blonde who has managed to pin one of the
previous strippers against the wall.
M ichael is to perform next, and I sit up in my
seat with interest because I hear women
around me whispering that he's the best. He
seems an unlikely stripper. He has told me
earlier that he's a student planning to do
graduate work and he's married, although his
wife now is living abroad. He says he's saving
the money he earns here to buy a ticket to visit
her and then to buy a typewriter to do his term
papers.
"I'm really a very shy person," he tells me.
"But I've always had fantasies about doing
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He says the secret to his success is that he
sings the lyrics to the songs and makes a lot of
eye contact with the crowd.
Michael walks onto the stage wearing the
same jacket and jeans he wore backstage. He's
wearing his wedding ring, too. He dances well,
and he removes only his jacket during the first
number.
When he returns for his second number his
shoes are off, and his movements become more
suggestive. By the time he has stripped down,
he has so much money that it's falling out of his
black leather G-string.
We go backstage again to talk with him.
"Was I OK?" he asks us with a note of worry in
his voice. We assure him he was, and he counts
his money. He has made $15 in tips tonight.
Michael's number is the high point of the
evening. The dances after him all seem pretty
repetitive. One man with a rather poor sense of
rhythm is noticeably worse than the others.
Women leave their seats to get more drinks. He
dances on, but he's getting no tips.
Gary comes over to us from the dressing
room with $1 in his hand. "Would one of you
give this to him?" he asks us. "It's his first time.
Please. It would help a lot."
We look at him skeptically, but after a
moment my friend, always ready to do a good
deed, agrees. She approaches the stage and
gingerly waves the bill. The dancer is so
nervous he doesn't notice. She waves it more
persistently, and he finally sees her and dances
toward her. She tucks it into his briefs and
gives him a perfunctory kis I try to control my
laughter.
The final stripper is a large cowboy who
undresses down to a G-string, boots and hat.
The women love him, but it's getting late and
I'm trying unsuccessfully to stifle yawns.
After he finishes, each of the dancers is
brought back onto the stage. The applause he
receives is measured with a meter. The cowboy
gets a lot of applause, but Gary wins over him.
Michael comes in third. The lights come up
and women gather their purses to leave.
, "1 want you to tell your friends about this,"
the announcer says to the audience. "It's good,
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Judge fines striking unions
NEW YORK (AP) A judge fined New York's striking bus and subway
unions $ 1 million Tuesday, saying the city is "hanging on the brink of disaster"
as the eighth day of the strike was marked by the worst traffic snarls yet for
' millions of commuters.
Justice John Monteleone of state Supreme Court in Brooklyn warned the
leaders of the unions that even harsher penalities were yet to come unless they
ordered their men back to work.
"No, not until we have reached a reasonable contract," was the sidewalk
response of Transport Workers Union chief John Lawe.
"My responsibility to the membership is to go back to the table and try to get
them a decent wage package, which I intend to do as soon as I get back to the
hotel."
The Traffic Department, counting 250,000 cars coming onto the island of
Manhattan, called Tuesday's traffic jams "the highwater mark so far."
Shah ready to leave hospital
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) The deposed Shah of Iran is in excellent condition
and is to leave his Nile-side hospital today, one of his Egyptian doctors said
Tuesday.
The convalescing shah has remained secluded in his suite at the Maadj
military hospital since he underwent surgery to remove his cancerous spleen 12
days ago.
Tests following the surgery showed that cancer had spread to his liver but
doctors said he would be treated with drugs.
There was no word on where the shah's quarters would be after his discharge
from the hospital.
President Anwar Sadat has said the former monarch would permanently live
in Egypt.
Carter shifts attention to peace talks
WASHINGTON (AP) President Jimmy Carter, shifting gears from the
Iranian stalemate, held talks Tuesday with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
aimed at pumping new life into slow-moving negotiations over self-rule for
more than 1 million Palestinian Arabs.
As the two leaders began their discussions, diplomatic sources were skeptical
that an agreement on an autonomy plan could be wrapped up during the Sadat
visit and the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin next week.
Carter and Sadat met alone for 70 minutes and then went to the Cabinet
room where they were joined by advisers for an additional 20 minutes.
American officials shed no light on the discussions. "I do not expect to have
any readout," Jody Powell, the White House press secretary, told reporters.
coliseum
From page 1
Barbee said he believed North Carolinians
are in favor of a new state coliseum. "It seems
to me as sports-minded as the people of North
Carolina are, they would like to have an arena
where they can go and watch a game," he said.
He expressed concern about the small
number of people who are able to attend
sporting events.
Barbee said the commission is merely con
ducting a feasibility study and does not have
the authority to propose a bill in the General
Assembly.
Swofford said the status of the proposed
facility would have no effect on the Univer
sity's building of a new coliseum in Chapel
Hill.
The UNC Board of Trustees voted March 21
to .-approve, plan for a ,$21, million student
athletic "center to be built on the southern
fringe of campus between Manning Drive and
Mason Farm Road.
The new center will seat 18,000-22,000
people and can be used for a variety of sports
events, including indoor tennis, wrestling and
gymnastics, as well as men's and women's
basketball.
Before the University can proceed with its
plans for the athletic center, it must receive
approval from the UNC Board of Governors.
After the plans have gone through the Univer
sity approval process, UNC officials will pre
sent the plans to the Chapel Hill Town Council
in May. The University cannot build the center
without a special use permit from the town.
No state money will be used to fund the new
center. Money will be raised by the University
thrqugh , private , contributions, and en
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