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Four Men: Living the Revolution: An Oral History of Contemporary Cuba By Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis, and Susan M. Rigdon University oj Illinois, 538 pp., $15

Now that Ambassador Andrew Young has assured us officially that hardly nobody is being shot hardly in Cuba no more hardly and in palpable fact Fidel Castro never did nothing to nobody no time except to nonviolently pacify Angola, the revisionist books are pouring out of the liberal presses, preparing us to celebrate the Great Pacificator’s Rhinestone Jubilee by relinquishing to his Isthmus friends the Panama Canal. After all, those scary weather forecasts in conservative papers warning of scattered missiles from the southeast with expected high temperatures of 3,500° never materialized, and there is every reason to believe that the feared Western Hemisphere Last Chance Armada is really a fleet of stately Spanish galleons coming from the Isthmus, dipping through the Tropics by the palm green shores with a cargo of diamonds, emeralds, amethysts, topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores to trade for gringo beet sugar and nickel cigars.

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Four Men: Living the Revolution: An Oral History of Contemporary Cuba By Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis, and Susan M. Rigdon University oj Illinois, 538 pp., $15

Now that Ambassador Andrew Young has assured us officially that hardly nobody is being shot hardly in Cuba no more hardly and in palpable fact Fidel Castro never did nothing to nobody no time except to nonviolently pacify Angola, the revisionist books are pouring out of the liberal presses, preparing us to celebrate the Great Pacificator’s Rhinestone Jubilee by relinquishing to his Isthmus friends the Panama Canal. After all, those scary weather forecasts in conservative papers warning of scattered missiles from the southeast with expected high temperatures of 3,500° never materialized, and there is every reason to believe that the feared Western Hemisphere Last Chance Armada is really a fleet of stately Spanish galleons coming from the Isthmus, dipping through the Tropics by the palm green shores with a cargo of diamonds, emeralds, amethysts, topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores to trade for gringo beet sugar and nickel cigars.