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Wednesday, 23 June 2004 00:00 |
Despite
a restrictive U.S. travel ban, American universities with a
U.S. government license can bring undergraduate and graduate students
for study programs generally lasting from a week to a month. But under
the new rules, such trips must be at least 10 weeks long - a
requirement critics say will make it impossible for many students to
study here.
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"Most people can't come for a full semester," said Wayne Smith,
an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University who brings students to
Cuba every year. "Almost everybody comes for a short-term program
because that fits into their schedules back home."
"The purpose is to stop educational travel," said Smith, who was
chief U.S. diplomat in Cuba 25 years ago and now a senior fellow at the
Washington-based Center for International Policy. "Yet we (the United
States) are supposed to be the champions of academic freedoms and the
exchange of ideas."
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