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...past, the Communists dealt with such countries only through the apparatus of subversion-organizing cells, fomenting strikes, infiltrating fronts, subverting governments. But now new governments are taking power in these places, which are primarily anticolonialist. They look about in the spirit of the Arab proverb: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend...
...covers a grassy, mile-wide plain. Inside each coop are four disks, each one meter across and wrapped in black plastic. From the disks, cables run to a central building crammed with oscilloscopes and other delicate gear. Last week the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, institutional proprietor of all this apparatus, announced that it has detected a cosmic ray (high-speed particle) that came to the earth from a foreign galaxy millions of light years away in the far depths of space. This was eye-opening scientific news...
Today, in the party's leadership, Old-time Communist Marinello, 61, has stepped aside and become a scholarly front man. Secretary General Bias Roca, 52, a trusted Moscow agent, controls the party apparatus. Rodríguez, 47, is the liaison between the Communists and the government. He is the one who meets secretly with Castro and Guevara. In 1955 the P.S.P. met underground and set out some "Fundamental Points." It demanded: ¶"Nationalization of foreign public service companies." ¶"Nullification of concessions to Yankee imperialists such as the King Ranch, mining and oil companies." ¶"Commercial relations with...
...similar to those used in U.S. atomic submarines, spacesuit-clad Strelka and Belka lolled in a constant 77° temperature. Old space dogs (each of them had taken short rocket rides before), they stared at each other through a pane of glass and ate eagerly from an automatic feeding apparatus while instruments fastened to their bodies relayed their blood pressure, temperature, pulse and breathing rate back to earth. Strelka seemed to bear up better than Belka under the rigors of weightless space travel: her breathing rate remained at a steady 30 pants per minute, while Belka's dropped sharply...
...roads," closed to all student automobiles. By an 8-1 vote on Monday, the Cambridge City Council approved a Traffic Board recommendation closing portions of Dunster, Holyoke, Mill, and South Streets and Riverview Avenue. For the next few years, the University will chain off the streets, allowing only fire apparatus, delivery trucks, and other necessary transportation...