Word: anti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Major William Morgan, of Cleveland, Ohio, who did stockade time in the U.S. Army, earned his Cuban rank fighting Dictator Fulgencio Batista last year in the central Cuban mountains of Las Villas province (in a minor revolt parallel to Castro's Sierra Maestra campaign). Approached by anti-Castro Cubans in March. Morgan went to Castro. On Castro's orders. Morgan joined the plot, brought in some fellow officers and even set up his luxurious Havana home, a prize of war, as the meeting place...
...Rebels. When Castro's wild economic reforms hit Cuba's upper class, the plot grew quickly. Armando Caiñas Milanés, head of the National Cattlemen's Association, joined, as did leading businessmen and cashiered Batista army officers. The plotters made Morgan delegate to anti-Castro groups in Miami and Ciudad Trujillo...
Next night the C46 returned, flown by Colonel José Antonio Soto, Batista's personal pilot, and carrying nine anti-Castro rebels. From near by, Castro himself happily joined the cries of "Down with Fidel!"-it was such a well-baited trap. As soon as the rifles, ammunition, hand grenades and submachine guns were unloaded, Morgan's men clapped the dumfounded invaders under arrest. In a flurry of gunfire from the plane, two of the invaders and two of Morgan's men were killed...
...South's anti-integration schemes is the "private school plan." The idea: to close all the public schools, thus diverting the U.S. Supreme Court's desegregation order. The next step is setting up private schools by giving state tuition grants to all school-age children (though not necessarily Negroes). Already the plan has been made possible by new laws in six states-Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Virginia. Other states are considering it. What few seem to be considering is the consequences...
Germany's Lutherans are strong for reunification of Germany, and in order not to rile the Communists against their Eastern brethren, they refrained from anti-Communist talk in speeches. Instead of bitterness at the Red regime, Lutherans displayed a tendency to look upon its repressions as divine punishment. Said Director Johann Schonherr of the Pastoral Seminary in East Germany's Brandenburg: "If today, in one part of Germany, the church loses many of its old privileges, the church must see this as God's way of regenerating it ... The church must suffer with its people, must share...