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...between his projects for human rights. In 1958 and 1959, he recruited and led a force of trouble-shooters on a trip to South West Africa to record and report the facts of racial oppression for the United Nations. In the foreword to Lowenstein's book on the expedition, Brutal Mandate, Eleanor Roosevelt called him "a person of unusual ability and complete integrity....he will always fight crusades because injustice fills him with a sense of rebellion...
...Brutal Bon Vivant. The next assassin did better. Jacques Mornard was one of those dedicated Stalinists who were willing to devote a lifetime to one shabby crime (he was released from a Mexican prison in 1960 and returned to Russia for his reward). Mornard began his well-laid plot by courting a homely girl from New York who served as a courier for Trotsky. He played the part of a bon vivant, showed no interest in politics and got the bemused girl to marry him. The first few times his wife visited Trotsky, Mornard tactfully waited outside. After several months...
...Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. For more than two centuries, our foreparents labored in this country without wages; they made cotton "king," and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation?and yet out of a bottomless vitality, they continued to thrive and develop. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will...
...some time, and its settlement means that the Market can now proceed on two legs-industrial and agricultural-rather than the one on which it has been hopping. In fact, so unrestrained was enthusiasm over the settlement that the bitterness and mistrust caused by De Gaulle's brutal veto of British membership last Jan. 14 seemed finally to be dissipating...
...provisional President after a coup by junior officers. He tried to ram through drastic economic and social reforms, but his successor paid too little attention to the military. Within three years, his Action Democrática party was turned out by another coup that led to the brutal, ten-year rule of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jimènez, a general. His next chance at office, Betancourt went all out to convince the small (33,000 men) but powerful armed forces that they had nothing to fear from democracy...