Cuba: The Long Way Home

After defying a State Department travel ban and junketing around Cuba for a month as Fidel Castro's guests, those 58 U.S. "students" ran up against quite a problem: getting home. No nation in the Western hemisphere seemed willing to let them fly in direct from Cuba, and after a trying month of delay they were forced to take a plane to Madrid. There, at last, a few of them seemed to have second thoughts about Castroland. Clinton M. Jencks, 19, a psychology student at San Francisco State College, had his Castro-style beard shaved off and frankly declared that he...

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