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pr 13 Spectrum Friday, May 16, 1980 Tifc fe like Fantasy Island' says Cuban refugee in US 1 LOS ANGELES (UPI) Last month Victor Cardenas, his teen-age wife and baby daughter were jammed into the Peruvian embassy in Havana fearfully awaiting word that they could escape Communist Cuba. Food was so scarce that one day thev ate a cat. An angry mob milled outside the walls. Cardenas, a slender 21-year-old Cuban army veteran and student machinist, is now adjusting to a new life in Los Angeles. He is still fearful of an jncertain future, but now he also has lope.

The first thing he noticed, he said in in interview, is that city streets are filled with cars and not police. "In Cuba they are around you everywhere," Victor said. "They surround you on the street. If you're out talking on the street at night, they send you home." "Once I was arrested and held for 72 hours because I had forgotten my Victor, his wife, Julia, 16. and their 1-year-old daughter, Maytee, are living temporarily at the home of Domingo Rufin, a United Press International maintenence chief.

Rufin fled Cuba in 1966. "They can stay as long as they want," Rufin said. "I know what they've been through. I've been there." Victor, who sported a new pair of red, white and blue gym shoes during the interview, likened his new country to a dream world. "This is like a fantasy island," he said.

"They ithe Cuban government) lied to us for so long. They said people in America were eating off newspapers and sleeping in the streets. I can't believe this world was out here." Drafted when he was 17. Victor spent three years as an infantryman in Cuba. The soldiers, he said, were unhappy, grumbling about the government.

But there wasn't any talk of revolt, he says, because was suspicious of everybody else." It was in the army that Victor first thought seriously about leaving Cuba. When he heard that thousands of people were going to the Peruvian embassy last month, he grabbed his wife and baby and scaled the walls, joining the mass of people hoping to get out. They stayed there nine days. They were fed only twice. The other days they ate mango leaves and one day.

the cat. Finally. Cuban officials gave Victor safe passage out of the embassy grounds. Outside the walls, the crowd beat him up. "They called us worms, parasites," he said.

"I was kicked and scratched." He took his family to his mother's house. They slept seven in a room for 15 days, making several trips to. government offices to get visas. They waited, in constant fear that something would go Once friendly neighbors became hostile, calling them names, refusing them service in neighborhood shops. On May Day, while Castro was giving his annual holiday speech, a motorcycle cop came to Victor's mother's house and told the family to go to the port of Mariel, the embarkation point for the Cuban boat people.

They spent two more days at the port, sleeping on the ground, until a "yacht" arrived. The "Captain Ray," piloted by a North American skipper, was meant to carry 10 passengers. But about 40 people, some of them sick and old, got on the boat for the 12-hour voyage to Key West, Fla. "I got on shore and clapped my hands," Victor recalled. "I yelled 'Freedom and I was so happy." The International Rescue Committee put the family up at a motel for two days, then gave them a little spending money and tickets for a flight to Los Angeles.

In the tightly knit Cuban community of Southern California, help was waiting. Rufin, who met the Cardenas family through his social club, is not legally responsibile for them. "There are no regulations," he said. "Just what my conscience tells me to do." The first thing Victor wanted was diapers for his baby. Now he is looking for a job.

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Va. (UPI) Within hours of the Jan. 28 collision between a Guard cutter and a tanker in Florida's Bay, a Navy medical team was dispatched to help the survivors head off potential psycological problems. The sinking of the cutter Blackthorn killed of 50 crewmen. The mobile squad from Portsmouth, counseled survivors who were angry the tragedy occurred and gripped by an illogical sense of guilt because they were alive and their buddies dead.

And the team gave strength and guidance to the widows some unsure how they'd cope, others resentful of the women whose husbands lived. Also helped were relatives had urged sons and nephews to join the service and thus blamed themselves for their deaths. 'r "Guilt, grief and anger are normal reactions to a disaster, but if unchecked can 'lead to real psychological problems." said Cmdr. Thomas Carlton, head of the Special Psychiatric Rapid Intervention Team (SPRINT). "What we try to do is help them identify a lot of the unseemingly abnormal things that indeed normal," said Carlton.

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