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Perspective A REVOLUTIONS SILVER ANNIVERSARY By RONALD REAGAN If you had any doubts about what Fidel Castro thinks about the United States, consider his words spoken on the twenty- sixth of July. The occasion was the celebration of a date twenty- five years ago, when Castro and a small band of com- paneros attacked the army barracks at Santiago de Cuba, thus launching, according to c o n t e m p o r a r y C u b a n mythology, The Revolution -- that squalid Leninist exercise we have come to identify as the regime in Havana. F idel's audience on the silver anniversary consisted of the party faithful and a sprinkling of "delegates" from the XI World Youth festival -- the communist world's com­ missars of the future celebrating a week of anti- Americanism paid for, of^ course, by their governments. And the Maximum leader did not disappoint them. Calling the United States "the most ferocious and powerful empire on earth," Castro pointed out that this country became a "virtual substitution for Hitler's Germany." "Who can deny these historical truths?" he asked rhetorically, omitting any mention of the United States' role in defeating Nazism. Having blithely rewritten history, Soviet-style, the Cuban dictator passed on to the present, the current state of U.S.-Cuban relations in par­ ticular. The first item on his list was the Carter campaign for human rights. Naturally, as a Marxist- Leninist state Cuba has no problems on that score. But Castro added contemptuously if the president's "preachings" succeed in modifying the behavior of U.S. allies such /as Brazil and South Korea, we might earn a merit or two in his sight. That said, Castro made it perfectly clear the United States still has much to answer for in the realm of human Tights. In his words: "...it still remains to be proved whether a bourgeois, imperialistic and warmongering regime can promise real human rights to anyone in the world within and outside its borders because such a system exists only to serve-using all of its resources and means domestically and abroad-the rights and interests of big capital." "With what moral right can the rulers of a nation speak of human rights when within it the millionaire „ and the beggar coexist, the , Indian is ex­ terminated, the black man is discriminated against, women lire prostituted and large masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited and humiliated? There is more-much more- in this hymn of hate, but the sample is generous and un- filtered. But aside from this, Castro made a few points about relations with the United States-once a high priority item with the Carter ad­ ministration. On leaving Africa: "What right does the United States have to demand the withdrawal of our military personnel from Africa, where they now are at the expressed desire of progressive, absolutely in­ d e p e n d e n t r e v o l u t i o n a r y governments?" As for the other issues, he condensed them, for once, in only two paragraphs: "One cannot be neutral in the face of issues such as Panama's sovereignty over the canal, the right of the peoples of Belize a n d P u e r t o R i c o t o i n ­ dependence, the blockade of Cuba and the Yankee naval base at Guantanamo." In this whole torrent of abuse, Castro did spell out his prin­ cipal theme - one our own Castro apologists should heed: • r IUU/1 * , r\ 7402 Hancock Drive-Wonder Lake, Illinois WOODSTOCK McHENRY Located in mature area nearby Clay St. school. Close to shopping, woodburning fireplace. Home shows very nicely. Asking *54,900 VA FINANCING POSSIBLE Pistakee bay area! Nice huge wooded lot with the convenients of a nearby beach. 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No doubt they will ignore the whole thing or blame it on Castro's pique at being criticized at Belgrade's non- aligned nations conference. Still, Castro's brand of tyranny is nothing new nor will it last. And, the United States government might contribute toward that end. For one thing, after receiving that kind of abuse, any self-rcspecting government would pull out its diplomatic presence. We should, in this case, remove our Interests Section and forbid further travel to Cuba for the time being, backed up with a stiff note of protest. Any recurrence of the twenty-sixth speech should be responded to by other measures, primarily economic, that will cost Castro's shaky economy even more. There is no reason, in short, for American passivity. A soft answer, in short, does not turn away wrath, it invites only more of the same. CONSUMER GUIDELINES i/Uuoi -f, Set Tootsie Roll Drive Nov. 3-4 Illinois Knights of Columbus will launch their ninth annual Tootsie Roll campaign in behalf of the mentally retarded on the weekend of Nov. 3-4 throughout the state * Robert J Defenbaugh of Watseka and Gus Sundermeier of Oak Lawn, co-chairing the annual fund-raising effort, have set their sights on a goal of $750,000, approximately 10 percent greater than the record $685,000 grossed in last year's drive. Neither chairman feels the goal is overly optimistic because most all of the money collected during the two-day drive is donated by the Knights to sheltered workshops, special schools, associations and m e n t a l l y r e t a r d e d organizations in the particular community where it was solicited. Since the campaign for the mentally retarded was initiated back in 1970, gross receipts from the program have realized over $4 million. Under the terms of the K of C program, 10 percent of the gross collected each year is placed in a K of C state fund which is used to provide sup­ port for a major mentally retarded project. Handling of the funds is governed by guidelines set up in compliance with the Internal Revenue Service tfhd the knights' national headquarters in New Haven. In recent years the Knights have been sponsoring a lead- mobile manned by technicians from the Illinois Association for Retarded Citizens. The mobile laboratory travels around the state testing young children free of charge for lead they may have ingested into their systems. Hundreds of youngsters who might well have suffered organic damage or irreversible brain damage from the effects of lead poisoning were detected by the testing lab on wheels and treated by local physicians and- or hospitals The candy product used in "selling" the programs, plus very minimal promotional costs of the participating councils, are about the only expenses deducted All of the contributions from the candy sales are placed in a charitable trust and donated to com r munity mentally retarded organizations Last year 244 of * the 277 Knights of Columbus councils or lodges in Illinois took part in the weekend drive. Some thirty-eight other states are holding annual mentally retarded campaigns during the year modeled after the suc­ cessful Illinois operation Fireworks Injuries Down Eye injuries caused by ex­ ploding fireworks continue to decline in Illinois, according to the Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness, a non­ profit organization which has been compiling fireworks eye injury reports from Illinois ophthalmologists for more than a quarter century. For the 1978 Independence day holiday period, Illinois eye doctors reported twenty-one injuries to the eye from fireworks mishaps, according to the society. This figure compares to thirty eye injuries reported in 1977 and an average of forty-five to fifty serious eye injuries in the previous twenty- five years. Indicative of the trend was a report from one Rockford eye doctor who stated that it was the first time in almost fifty years that he had zero injuries. Most of this year's injuries as reported to the society by ophthalmologists were to the cornea or outer "window" of the eye The injuries, generally to boys from age 5 to 9 or young, teen-age males, were caused by hot cinders, sparklers, broken glass, and explosive burns. In only one case, that of a 12-year old boy, was vision likely to be permanently affected "It is gratifying to see the incidence of eye injuries from fireworks steadily declining," says Edgar T Britton, executive director of the Illinois society "It shows th£t the educational efforts of the society, multiplied many times over by the generous support of the media and law enforcement officials, is finally beginning to make our nation's In­ dependence day celebration truly a safe and sane holiday IBfkVaJNfi U6HTJ If you're taking a trip this summer, travel light and you save both time and human energy. Choose easy-care, wrinkle-free gar­ ments and take along detergent for quick launder­ ing. Leave heavy bottles and jars of cosmetics and toiletries, taking only what you need in small plastic containers. Chain O' Lakes State Park Has Job Openings A large number of job openings in the Illinois Young Adult Conservation corps work crew at Chain-0 Lakes State park are to be filled im mediately by young men and women from Lake and McHenry counties, according to 1YACC administrator Scott Fisher Applicants for the jobs must be between the ages of 16 through 23, out of work, and no longer in school Those in­ terested in applying should see .Joyce Clements at the State Job Service office in Fox Lake by 9 a m. Monday, Aug 28. IYACC is a federally spon­ sored program administered by the Illinois Department of Conservation It is designed to provide full time, year round conservation jobs for young men and women with an em­ phasis on hiring in areas of 6.5 percent or higher unem­ ployment Enrollees in the program work in crews on state and publicly owned lands, earning the federal minimum wage Those hired to work at Chain O-Lakes will be joining an already established crew whi< h began work in the park two months ago Work to be done in the park by the crew includes beach restoration, rehabilitation of the boat launch ramp, and the transplanting of 3,000 trees Other projects planned for the site are removing several old farm buildings, tearing out obsolete sidewalks, removing old fence and creating parking islands at the boat dock area In addition to the job op­ portunity available with IYACC, Fisher said enrollees also have the chance to further their education or pursue vocational training through other federal and state spon­ sored programs Japan Split Geological faults split a single land mass into three islands -- Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku -- in the process of creating Japan's 300-mile-long inland sea, scien­ tists say. 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