CUBAN COMMUNISTS READY FOR CONFERENCE PARTY TO REMAIN TRUE TO SOCIALIST PRINCIPLES.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: October 8, 1997 | Copyright information

Revolutionary banners and slogans are posted everywhere, and about 1,800 delegates have already arrived in the capital. After months of preparation that have emphasized ideological discipline and ``socialist values'' over change, Cuba's Communist Party begins its first congress in six years today.

The three-day meeting, sandwiched around the 30th anniversary of the death of communist icon Che Guevara, is expected to ratify some changes in the composition of the 225-membe...

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