The use of alleged human rights violations in Cuba as a political tool is the topic of a lecture to be delivered at noon Tuesday, Feb. 25, at the University of California, Davis, School of Law. "Cuba-U.S. Relations and the Politics of Human Rights" will be delivered in the Moot Court Room by Anthony M. Platt, a professor of social work at California State University, Sacramento. The talk is free and open to the public. Platt, editor and co-author of "Tropical Gulag: The Construction of Cold War Images of Cuba in the United States" (1987), will discuss the various charges made by the United States and, to a lesser extent, the United Nations, about human rights violations in Cuba. Some of the charges are true, Platt said, but others are exaggerated or false. He said the United States applies a double standard to what it regards as human rights violations in Cuba in comparison to other countries, such as Haiti. The talk is sponsored by the law school's International Law Society.