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From: jeff@qubix.UUCP (Jeff Bulf)
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Subject: Re: Thoughts on..  (Shooting Castro vs Reagan)
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Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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> >1. I bet Castro doesn't go out without his security (even in a nation where
> >   private ownership of guns -all guns- is banned). (here come the flames!!)
> 
> The fact that Castro can and does wander around more or less alone was a
> point made by Dan Rather in one of his segments on Cuba a few months ago.

security --
For an entertaining view of this same point, check the book "With Fidel",
Frank Mankiewicz (sp?) and Kirby Jones' account of their interview-
tour in the early seventies. As I recall, Fidel met them at their
hotel in a single lone jeep: no escort or bodyguard. When there
turned out to be one more visitor than anticipated, Fidel left his
driver at the hotel, and drove the visitors around Havana himself!

private guns --
    [Source:
The following is based on conversations with people, both here and
Latin America, who have travelled in Cuba. One whom I know well
speaks fluent spanish and travelled without government escorts.
Does anybody out there have print sources available, one way or
another?]

    Private ownership of guns seems to be very far from banned.
Travellers to Cuba are unanimous on this point: everybody is armed,
or at least owns personal weapons and is trained in their use.
The only unarmed people are ... ta da ... the police; they carry only
clubs, and are generally older people, more like our security guards
than our police.
-- 
	Dr Memory
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