The number of people joining the Communist Party of Cuba is continuing to grow. Statistics published in the daily edition of Granma, the official organ of the Party, show that over thirty percent of Party members have joined in the past five years. The number of Party members has increased twenty-fold in the last thirty years. Currently, the Cuban Communist Party has 780,000 members, a number released during the series of meetings held to select the 1,500 delegates who will participate in the Party's Fifth Congress in Havana from October 8-10. TML Daily, 9/97 Shawgi Tell Graduate School of Education University at Buffalo [EMAIL PROTECTED]