Speaker. there are current newspaper reports of a group of university students traveling to Cuba again this year to help with the sugar harvest. I am distressed as are most freedomloving Americans that even one misguided young Americanborn radical would offer comfort and help to dictator Castro in his times of agricultural. economic. and welldeserved political disaster by participating in the annual pilgrimage to the Cuban canefields. Unbiased observers and refugees give evidence of a total police state in Cuba with martial law and complete deprivation of civil rights. human rights. or freedom of speech. movement. or public assembly. We should be grateful that the vast majority of our young people are sound and rational thinkers who. while realizing our shortcomings. also count our blessings. and who would work within our system to reorder priorities and readjust inequities as they see them. Perhaps the State Department should develop an exchange programone prisoner of Cuban tyranny and repression for each local radical who seeks liberation from the constitutional rights and freedoms of America.
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