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. . (10) "Havane--the occasion of real terror, and 4n one instance of the death of two Cubans and the wounding of 45--have failed to force the government to take any but the most obviouslty urgent security measures. Despite an attempted tnvasion from Santo Domingo, a widesniead counter-revolu- tiona:y conspiracy, and numerous small acts of sabotage and terrorism on the part of fozmer BATISTA henchmen, the governnent has refrained from invoking the death sentence against convicted counter-revolutionaries,. Newseek not- withstanding, not one of these has been shot, 97-1809 ‘WHAT HAVE WE DONE...?' asks a new and hopeful generation of Cubans, viewed with hostility in Washington and Wall Street, accused of tampudence! for seeking their independence, threatened witn economic and Giplomatic 'Gsolation’? in the Hemisphere. “perhaps their crime is their youth. (The average age of =a the Cuban revolutionary leaders is 29). Perhaps they have pee aspired toward too much, too soon, (Three thousand low-cost hovsing units build in the first year of revolution, more then 7,000 classrcoms, hundveds of miles of new roads, 500 fiourishing agricultural cooperatives, thousands of jobs created in new 4ndustries established through the voluntary contributions of a million Cuban workers.) Perhaps the explanation 4s simply that there are, in the United States, powerful interests bent on frustrating the primary purpose of the Revolution: to give Cuba back to the Cubans. . "Tt is true that the young leaders of the Cuban Revolution have little patience with considerations of profit and loss, 4n the face of poverty and human need, Nor have they any saving exnerience with the amenities of public relations, or the intrigues of dollar diplomacy, or the sophistry of journalistic ‘facts! which distrot truth, But if s0, they -T- ee ee ad