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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
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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. Hoffa noted
"brazen and bold statements by
Allnenat, Hanaral Vnhxrt Van.t Title tha Taamdpi- nffirial Ifl
jnedy that he would wire tap every would result in Americans losing
single line in the country." (their constitutional rights.
everybody's swingin' to the
Family Night
Movie Slated
YMCA Family Night, April 5.
will feature a movie on the Mardi
Gras and a steamboat ride up
the Mississippi River presented
by John and Ruth Tribe. Members
and their families will have pot
luck dinner at 6:30. the movies.
and gym fun including volleyball
for adults and trampoline for the
youth.
For the potluck, families are
asked to bring table service and
one hot dish and salad or dessert.
Coffee will be provided.
m M L-y New
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ested area to sink, making a
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