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...authorities let him go, all right. Last week the Supreme Soviet's Presidium announced that it had deprived Tarsis of his citizenship, "for actions discrediting a citizen of the U.S.S.R.," leaving him permanently stranded in Britain. Tarsis had asked for it. He had roundly condemned "Soviet bandit fascism" at a London press conference, followed that blast with an article, obviously written before the edict but published after it, in the Sunday Telegraph reporting that despite savage persecution, "our people's immeasurable love of freedom is growing...
...most recent underground novel, Ward 7, concerns his experience as a political prisoner in an insane asylum, he is a certified lunatic, hence not legally liable for his ravings. At a press conference, Tarsis sounded sane enough though a bit high-strung. He roundly condemned Soviet "police fascism," "bandit fascism," and "the government, which has betrayed the national cause." Then he sounded very much like any other author anywhere. "I am very sad that my books haven't sold well enough in the West," he remarked, adding hopefully, "I hear the Americans specialize in publicity. Perhaps they...
Guerrillas All Around. More or less the same thing goes on in other Latin American countries. In Peru, 2,000 government troops have been chasing 1,300 guerrillas through the highlands for six months. In Colombia, Castro's man is Pedro Antonio Marin, 35, a bandit-turned-Communist who leads 100 guerrillas responsible for dozens of rural murders. In Guatemala, Marco Antonio Yon Sosa, 34, a onetime army lieutenant with U.S. training, leads a 150-man band that recently bushwhacked an army patrol, killing two soldiers...
...also gave some clues to the scope of counterrevolutionary effort in his own country. In Las Villas province, 2,005 rebels had been captured or killed since 1961, he said, and in the struggle, 295 soldiers of his "anti-bandit battalions" had been killed. When Castro turned to the economy, the crowd fell silent under some withering criticism from the Maximum Leader. Cubans, cried he, "are going at 25% of their capacity 80% of the time...
...shot." To show his disgust for the dandified "chocolate drinkers" who, he feared, were taking over the revolution, he ordered a prisoner shot in front of his luncheon guests. Villa's only interest, according to Guzman, was to preserve the revolution for the poor-with whom, as a bandit, he had always shared his plunder...