HAVANA, February 21 (Manuel Vázquez Portal, Grupo Decoro) - Someone
has again stolen the eyeglasses from the statue of Beatle John Lennon in a
Havana park, this time in spite of a special adhesive developed by a team of
scientific researchers at the Interior Ministry, according to Cuban Television.
The statue, erected last year, lost its glasses for the first time a few
days after it was
inaugurated. After that incident, researchers from the Interior Ministry
developed an adhesive that would keep the glasses securely attached to the
statue. Government television’s national news further revealed that the
adhesive had received a prize at the last Science and Technology forum.
A further irony is that the Beatles’ music was strictly forbidden
during the years when the British group was at the height of its popularity as a
"noxious foreign influence" on Cuban youth.
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