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...nearby Congo, Angolan Rebel Leader Holden Roberto snapped that the offer came too late, adding: "But it shows we are winning-this is Portugal's first reform in 500 years." His guerrillas, armed with muzzle-loading flintlocks and a few modern weapons captured in ambushes, confidently await next month's rains, when the roads will be impassable to Portuguese armor and the isolated army outposts can be surrounded and picked...
...implication that the U.S. somehow recognizes the permanence of the present regime in Cuba. This we do not do and never will do, because to do so would be to betray the thousands of patriotic Cubans who are still waiting and struggling for the freedom of their country. We await the day when the people of Cuba have once more regained their freedom...
...days, Fidel Castro had been promising Cubans a big surprise on the July 26th anniversary of his unsuccessful 1953 attack on Dictator Fulgencio Batista's regime. The great day came and went. No surprise. Said Castro, in his best who-me? manner: "The revolution does not have to await a date; revolution is a process." Apparently he had decided, perhaps on Moscow's advice, to go slower in proclaiming the next step in Communizing the country. The only real surprise of the week was the hijacked Eastern Air Lines Electra that landed unexpectedly (the Cubans seemed as surprised...
...complete analysis of the 1960 campaign will have to await a later day and more penetrating research. As reporting, the book is a notable achievement. White has written a fascinating story of a fascinating campaign...
...surface on entering the denser layers of the atmosphere. I remembered the mishap of Cosmic Ship III, which on Dec. 1, 1960, burned up with its cargo of two dogs. The fate of Pchelka and Mushka had a bitterish taste. Would all systems work normally? Did some unforeseen peril await...