Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early this year, the Black Liberation Front, a hot-eyed batch of pro-Castro New York Negroes, got in touch with some Quebec separatists, an equally odd outfit fanatically dedicated to Quebec's secession from Canada. The Black Liberation boys wanted some dynamite; the Canadians were willing to provide it. From their agreement sprang one of the most convoluted conspiracies since Guy Fawkes schemed in 1605 to blow up the English Parliament with 36 barrels of gunpowder...
...Black Liberation plotters, things seemed to be going swimmingly. Little did they know that in their midst was an undercover agent: big Ray Wood, not a pro-Castro kook at all but a New York rookie cop. Last summer he was taken from his classes at the police academy, ordered to infiltrate left-wing groups like the Black Liberation Front that at the time were suspected of fomenting Harlem riots. Wood spent hours plodding picket lines and insulting cops, managed to gain Collier's confidence, and joined the conspirators' inner circle. He kept a daily diary...
...UGANDA, Prime Minister Milton Obote claimed that some of Tshombe's U.S.-made airplanes had bombed two Ugandan border villages last week, and charged that the craft were piloted by U.S. citizens or Cuban rebels (Gbenye's Congolese rebels are always "nationalists," but anti-Castro Cuban exiles are "rebels"). Obote was using anti-Americanism in hopes of pulling his own country's warring factions together, and his government radio urged employers to give everyone a day off for protest riots. Sure enough, next day a holiday crowd brought in by trucks from the provinces surged around...
...million-ton surplus this year; prices have toppled from 11.18? per Ib. only last month to last week's 2.20?. Two companies operated by Julio Lobo, the world's foremost sugar buyer, recently went bankrupt by banking on a rising market. The situation is complicated by Castro's Cuba, whose crop this year is expected to rebound to 5 million tons. Russia, the world's largest grower (from sugar beets), takes a big share of Cuba's crop in return for machinery and other aid, then dumps much of it on the world market. Meantime...
...Enlightenment philosophy that allowed no room for disagreement or human foible. Those who did not share that vision were packed off to the guillotine; some 17,000 were beheaded during the Terror. By equating Virtue with Terror, Robespierre set a comforting precedent for every subsequent despot from Stalin to Castro...