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NO FOREIGN DISSENC-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-1-A-LNr: Page 6 of12 Page..CS-311/07089-6021. During the first year of the three-year program, the students, all of whom are wedical edical doctors, study (a) mathematics: mathematical analysis (higher algebra), analytical geometry, and trigonometry; (b) physics: mechanics (kinematics, statics, and dynamics), mechanics of liquids and gases, and heat; (c) chemistry; inorganic and organic; (d) languages (Rosier, English, French, or German); dialectical and histori- wal materialism; and logic of science. The classes occupy both mornings and afternoons and include seminars given by the professors; under a rotation system, the students also give seminars in which each by turn first lectures on presides over the ensuing debate. In addition, the students review the bibliography of subjects related to medicine, such as studies on biochemistry, pharmacology, etc.22. During the second year of the three-year program, the students continue to study the pure sciences: mathematics . (infinitesimal analysis), physics (optics and electromagnetism), and organic chemistry, plus dialectical and historical material- ism, languages, and a specific medical speciality selected by the individual student. In addition, the students serve as instructors of biochemistry, physiology, etc., at the Victoria de Giron premedical school.23. During the third year, each student (a) continues to serve as an instructor at the Victoria de Giron premedical school, (b) continues to study in his own specialty, such as biochemistry, neurophysiology, electronic microscopy, genetics, virology, etc., (c) undertakes an original research project under the guidance of a professor who is usually a foreigner, (d) writes a thesis based on the research project, presents it, and defends it before a tribunal, and (e) completes an examina- tion in the specialty he has chosen. If the thesis is approved and the student passes the examination in his specialty, he receives the title of Doctor of Basic Sciences and either becomes a' member of the faculty of one of the three Cuban medical schools (Paragraph 5.b.above) or stays on at the CNIC as a research assistant.24. During the first year, students receive 225 Cuban pesos monthly. During the second year they receive 250 pesos monthly, and during the third year they receive 300 pesos monthly. In addition, the students receive a free lunch and supper daily.25. In late 1968, the CNIC will graduate its first two Doctors of Basic Sciences: Dr. Carlos J. Finlay, M.D., who studied in France, and Morlan (fnu), who studied in Rumania; both will remain at the CNIC after graduation and do research in biochemistry.26. Doctor of Pure Sciences. Candidates for the CNIC training program leading to the degree of Doctor of Pure Sciences must satisfy requirements similar to those described in paragraph 20 above: candidates must be outstanding students in one of the pure sciences (chemical, physical, mathematical, or biological sciences) who, throughout their entire college career have demonstrated special aptitudes for teaching and scientific research, and who are Communist sympathizers approved by the UJC.Victoria de Giron Institute of Basic Sciences27. The Victoria de Giron Institute, located next to the CNIC, is the only school of is type in Cuba. Rather than a