The Yanqui Millionaires

Aside from a few journalists and hijacked airline passengers, about the only Americans who have visited Cuba in recent years were 216 youths who journeyed there last fall, intent on helping Fidel Castro to attain his goal of a record 10 million-ton sugar harvest. Last week the 216 docked at St. John, N.B., and another 600 young militants boarded the same ship to replace them. The achievements of the first group may prove difficult to duplicate. Taking the name Brigada Venceremos (rough translation: the We Shall Overcome Brigade), they worked alongside Cuban workers, including, on one occasion, none other than Fidel, who is said to spend at least four hours a day cutting cane. After nearly two months, the 216 Americans reached their goal: a harvest of 1,000,000 arrobas (about 25 million Ibs.). For their efforts, they received a most ironic title, considering Cuba's emphasis on socialist orthodoxy: "the Millionaires."

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