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PACE R-A HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Fells, Ore. Wednesday, April 3, l'J63 1 Life In Castro's 'Devil's Island' Told In Prisoner's Smuggled Diary Editors Not: Living ill the Isolated Cuban prison on the Jsle of Pines literally Is like living on a huge bomb. The pris. 'qb Is mined. A former Inmate, jtho was there 29 months as a political prisoner, smuggled out a diary of his experiences, on -which this series is based. The 'author, who was educated in the Vnited States, Is a member of one of Cuba's best known families. By EDDY SUAREZ RIVAS Written for L'PI MIAMI UP1) - The Isle of Pines is Fidel Castro's "Devil's Island." where his foremost po litical foes are sent, if they are not earmarked for the firing squads. It is a place of living death. I know it well. For 29 months I vegetated there with some 6,000 other anti-Castro prisoners includ- Jailed Law Student Authors Dispatch .' By United Press International ;JJddy Suarez Rivas, the author ot the accompanying dispatch on life in the Cuban prison on the tie of Pines, was a law student at Catholic Villanova University In Havana when he was jailed as a political prisoner. - Now 23, he was 25 when first imprisoned. He was held four months at La Cabana in Havana and then was transferred to the Isle of Pines where he was held 29 months. .Suarez Hivas speaks English fluently, having been educated in the Miami County Fla. Day School, Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania, and at the Boston University College ol General Studies. His father was a Cuban sena tor for 20 years and was agricul ture minister during the Prio government. Bennies Shatter Life For College Couple I! By ANN LANDERS :i3ear Ann Landers: My husband is a junior in college. Last se mester he was introduced to some i siay a w a k e ml.- t.:J puis. ilia kius call them Ben nies. From Ben nies he went to other stuff. At first he took pills only when lis had to stay up and cram for finals. Then he began to take them when he needed a lift. It wasn't long before he was tqking pills just to keep going. 'Ills disposition has changed frjim a sweet, likable guy to a belligerent bully. He argues with everybody. Hardly a civil word has passed between us in months. His grades hove slipped badly and he has lost confidence in himself. I'm worried about his health. He has lost a lot of weight and looks terrible. The man who started him on the pills provided them free at first. Now they cost $14 a dozen. llama nervous wreck. Please (ell mo what to do. - MRS. HOOKED Dear Mm.: Your husband should be In the hands of a com petent physician and soon. And the man who la peddling the junk should be reported to the police, I hope you have the courage to turn In the scoundrel and spare other young people the agony you are now suffering. Dear Ann Landers: 1 am mother who does not agree with your position on going steady. My daughter is 13 years old and in the seventh grade. She is going steady with a very nice boy of 14 and I am delighted. Last year when she didn't have a steady boy friend she was a ter ribly unhappy girl. She was al ways worried to death she wouldn't bo invited to this party or to that ball game. It was a sad sight to see this child tcary-cyed and fretting waiting for the tele phone to ring. Going steady means nothing more to a seventh grader than having somebody to count on. It's what the youngsters call "social security." Please don't be so hard on these 13-year-olds, Ann. Things are dif ferent than when you and I were teen-agers. Today it's a serious thing for a girl to be dateless, -R.D. Dear R.D.: And who made It a "serious thing" for a 13-year-old to be dateless? Mothers like you. The divorce rate is going through the roof and largely be cause of half-baked, premature marriages. When mothers prime their 12-year-old daughters to be man-traps, the kids become so jaded and bored at 17 there is nothing left to do but get married. At 19 there's no place to go but to the divorce court. Please keep my address handy, mother. I have a sneaking sus picion you'll be writing again. Dear Ann Landers: You have expressed your views about the single girl who becomes involved with the married man and you've discussed the eternal triangular affairs among married couples. Yet you ve never explained why the female always pays for the involvement while the man goes free. When a woman gets caught up in in an illicit love affair she often loses her home, her job, her friends, her place in respec table society and yes, sometimes even her health. The man con tinues on his merry way with nary a scar looking for his next pigeon. What is the secret? How can a woman immunize herself against a tattered and torn heart the way men do? Please don't dodge behind the obvious line that a woman can protect herself by not becoming involved in the first place. Wom en will continue to become in volvcd regardless of the conse quences. What s your solution? -D. PRESSED Dear 1): Being a mere column ist and not a miigirlan, I have no cure-all. As the poet has said "to a woman love is all, To man 'tis a thing apart." Foolish women will continue to become Involved. And men will continue In take things apart. You can count on It, Babe. ing Americans held by the Cuban regime. I was prisoner-No. 25871. .My dismal, desperate confine ment there ended suddenly and unexpectedly when I was released and returned to Miami last Christ mas Eve with Hie ransomed Bay of Pigs invaders, among whom were my two brothers. The Americans, too. soon may be freed. They are quartered in buildings that have been mined with at least 10 tons of dynamite ready to be detonated upon com mand of the Communist warden. But, in one sense, that is the least of their plight. They suffer physical and psychological tor tures that only a waix?d mind could devise. Once a Wonderland Their situation is all the more hellish when contrasted with the fact that the beautiful Isle of Pines, 40 miles off the southern coast of Cuba, once was a tour ist wonderland and a place of gaiety. Castro converted it into the locale for his most isolated prison. There is no escape from this Cuban prison. The sharks make that impossible without a boat. They are Castro's silent sentinels, always on duty. Despite the tremendous odds, many prisoners have tried to es cape. I know of only one who got out and he traveled by plane in the company of the prison war den, who also fled. Jorge Solus, a former captain in Castro's army, flew out with the warden in 1960 and reached Miami by boat from Havana. Less than two years later he was killed in an accident in Miami. The warden who helped Sotus escape, Kamon raauia, aiea a violent death a reported suicide last month in the Brazilian Embassy in Havana where he had received political asylum. Buildings Circular The Isle of Pines prison con sists of four circular buildings, each six stories high. In each of these buildings, known as "circu lars," there arc 93 cells on each floor with a minimum of two men in each cell. The cells aro hot in the sum mer and cold in the winter. Solitary confinement .in "pun ishment pavilions," with beatings, cold water dousmgs and a star vation diet, is what those who at tempt to escape can expect at the very leust. For example. Heynaldo Blanco, a political prisoner, actually got out of hie prison in 19(10 but the militia caught up with him in a hort time. He silent the next 91 days in solitary confinement. Demonstrations in political pris ons anywhere behind the Commu nist Iron Curtain are rare and Cuba is no exception. But the men on Uiat island succeeded just oncc-in defying sj)cir guards last May. They staged a week Ions strike, the big strike, as I think of It a prison revolt. That was the most inspiring thing I saw during my imprison ment from Aug: 31, HlfiO to Dec 24, iota. We succeeded in forcing the authorities, briefly, to meet our terms. No mean trick (or men sitting atop 20,01X1 pounds of dynamite. Next: Strike demands and re taliation. f- , j, , ' mA' ri Hoffa Dubs Bob Kennedy 'Spoiled' NEGRO SELECTED Capt. Edward J. Dwight, the first Negro to be selected for possible participation in fu ture U.S. manned space flights, is shown in his classroom at Edwards Air Force Base. Dwight is one of 1 4 candi dates chosen for the Air Force's Aerospace Research Program. They will be trained primarily for the Dyna Soar program. The Dyna-Soar or X-20 is to be a winged space vehicle. UPI Telephoto Control Dams Prevent Willamette River Flood PORTLAND (UPD-Flood con trol dams in the Willamette Basin prevented flooding al Goshen, Harrisburg, Monroe, Albany and Jefferson, after last week's rains Army Engineers said today. The engineers released a list of figures showing actual stream depths after the rains and the probable depths if the dams had not regulated streamflow. The most noticeable change was on the Coast Fork of the Willam ette River at Goshen. Flood stage there is 11.4 feet. The river reached 11.2 feet, but without the Cottage Grove Reser voir it would have crested at 14.5 feet, according to- the engineers. The Willamette River at Harris burg reached 9 feet, a foot below flood stage, last weekend. Without regulation it would have been 10.7 feet. Regulation of the river kept the crest at Albany at 14.3 feet instead of 17 feet. The Long Tom River would Toffee Sales End April 6 Boys who are selling loffee pea nuts to earn their way to YMCA Camp Diamond must complete all sales by Saturday. April 6. All camp peanut salesmen are asked to contact the YMCA and pick up any additional cases before Saturday. have crested at 10.5 feet al Mon roe, well over its 8.3 flood stage. Flood control dams reduced it to 7.7 feet. The Santiam River at Jefferson did reach 13.1 feet, slightly over the 13.0 flood stage, but without regulation upstream it would have been six inches higher. Editor Leaves Spokane Desk SPOKANE, Wash. (UPI) -Frank C. Ferguson, 65, a former New York newspaperman who came west 22 years ago,, retired Monday as associate editor of the Spokesman-Review here. Ferguson began as a reporter on the morning daily here in 1941 and later became city editor. He had been associate editor since 1950. One son, Frank Jr., is profes sor of pharmacology and physiol ogy at Albany, N.Y.. Medical College. The other, Howard, is city editor of the Turlock, Calif., Journal. NEW YORK lUPD-Atty. Gen Robert F. Kennedy, according to Teamsters Union Chief James Hoffa, is a "spoiled young mil lionaire . . using the taxpayers' money to carry on ... a per sonal vendetta." In an interview Monday night with newsman David Brinklev ("David Brinkley's Journal," NBC), the trucking boss said that Kennedy has more than 3,000 gov ernment agents investigating his union. The antagonism between the two goes back to the McClellan Committee Senate investigations. when Kennedy acted as chief counsel for the committee. Sen. John McClellan, D-Ark., chairman of the committee, charged Hoffa with diverting union funds to his own uses. In the past two years, 77 offi cers and members of the union have been indicted on charges of stealing union funds, taking pay offs, violence, tax evasion and perjury. Thirty eight of them have been convicted. "There's only one thing I like about Kennedy," Hoffa told Brink Icy. "His willingness to work and to fight to win. Now, outside of that, I don't have any use for him. "And 1 wouldn't even give him credit for that because he's not right enough (sic) to use his own money. Now, if he would use some of his billions and carry on this fight, I would respect him a little more. But instead of that he's using the taxpayers' money tu carry on the fight for his own personal vendetta." He said he bore no hatred for t h e young attorney general. Wouldn't waste my time," the stocky unionist said. "When you start hating you forget to think. I gotla think how to beat him, not how to hate him." He castigated the Senate Inves tigation hearings into his union as "a carnival, a publicity seek ing operation, nothing sincere about it." "They trade on fear," he said, "and they trade on the atmos phere that they create by having 150 newspapermen sitting there, having 10-12 cameras, tremendous lights trained at the witness." Hoffa. commenting on the Teamsters expulsion from the AFL-CIO for corruption, told Brinkley: "I have consistently said, des pite some of my board members' opposition, that this international union should do almost anything humanly possible to get back into the AFL-CIO. Not that we can't live without 'em, but that they can't live without us. "George Meany (AFL-CIO pres ident) is the only man in my opinion that's keeping the Teams ters Union out of the AFL-CIO and he couldn't do a better job for the employers if they gave him all the money they have." The. television interview was taped in advance. Kennedy got further attention from Hoffa Mon day night when the unionist ap peared before 850 members of the Traffic Club of Newark. N.J., an organization of transportation businessmen. There he criticized a bill pro posed in Washington which would legalize wire-tapping for law en forcement purposes. 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