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Sure If You Prefer 'Control' !Castro's Cuba Better Than Spanish-America- (Donald Sterling Jr hi an amaxtont to the plahladher of the Portinnd On (?regonian) J Castro and his supporters overthrew the brutal and corrupt end of that republic in 1959 They have ruled it ever since with toughness and some brutality of their own mixed with a program of the social justice implied by that quotation from one of Castro's speeches That is the impression gained from a week in Cuba as a member of a delegation of 13 private citizens invited by American Relathe Commission on United States-Latitions a organization In Cuba we were guests of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of course saw mainly what our hosts wanted to show us In the 29 years since "The Triumph of the Revolution" Cubans tend to recite that phrase as if it were a title — the country has been trying to cope with five main problems one Cuban spokesman said: unemployment hunger illiteracy lack of medical care and inadequate housing The Cubans have been handicapped in their efforts by n non-prof- it -Exactly how that word control" should be interpreted is open to question At the least it meant that Alvarez had records on every person in his territory He told us that they included 132 smokers and only one alcoholic Above the family doctors in Cuba's system rises a pyramid of district clinics local municipal and provincial hosand one national research pitals 12 research and teaching hospital located in Havana Cuba sends medical specialists abroad to study including to the United States when they can obtain visas Lack of adequate housing continues to be a problem materials especially in Havana 11 en such simple building blockade as paint are scarce in part because of the US In Old Havana the historic district that dates back to the 1500s Cuba is beginning to repair and restore ornate names of revolutionary heroes Today 97 percent of children ages 6 to 12 are in school Education is free — all the way through the universities for those who qualify to go there About half of today's high school graduates go on to higher education But now that Cuba has built up its supply of people with advanced educations it plans to cut that proportion back to Fernandez said medical care system also Cuba's government-operateis free from prenatal checkups to organ transplants As the Cubans described it its basis in the cities is a system of family doctors who live in their neighborhoods and both hold office hours and visit homes Dr Juan A Alvarez Gomez was wearing a white clinical coat over blue jeans and cowboy boots when we met him in his office on the ground floor of his house in the Plaza de la Revolucion district of Havana A tall and handsome 29- he holds a degree in family medicine He and his year-ol- d office nurse had 580 people assigned to them he said through a translator "and whether they are ill or not they are all under control" the economic blockade that the United States has imposed since 1960 Before then Cuba imported nearly all of its manufactured goods from the United States Today every adult Cuban has an assigned job A measure of how far this policy has to be stretched to accommodate everyone is that elevator operators push the buttons in the automatic elevators of Havana's hotels Thousands have been cut loose from jobs in industrial plants to build housing Cuba's armies in Angola and Ethiopia and military and civilian advisers in other Third World countries absorb more of the labor force Obesity has replaced hunger as Cuba's main nutrition problem health workers said The conspicuousness in the Cuban diet of starchy potatoes and rice pork and sugar thick coffee may have something to do with that Food is rationed and the stocks in the little corner grocery stores are meager Nevertheless the Cubans we saw looked healthy We saw no beggars on the streets of Havana and no shantytowns around its edges like those that surround big cities in many other Latin American countries Building schools has had a high priority under the Castro regime The minister of education Jose Fernandez ticked off the figures on his charts like the military man he once was: the field commander when Cuba defeated the invasion at the Bay of Pigs in 1961 In 1953 the year Castro led his first unsuccessful revolutionary gesture against the Batista government less than half of Cuban children 6 to 16 were in school Fernandez said Thirty percent could not write their names After Castro and his followers came to power in 1959 the Cuban government nationalized all schools including those run by the Catholic Church Army barracks and mansions were converted into schoolhouses that carry the Donald J Sterling Jr Newhouse News Service HAVANA — Visitors to Cuba are likely to find a little tourist guidebook in their hotel rooms government-issu- e that includes this comment by Fidel Castro: "What kind of a republic was it which did not even guarantee a man the right to work? 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