Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Felix's has also had other controversial customers. In 1959, when Cuban Premier Fidel Castro came to Harvard to speak, about six of his aides, dressed in green jump suits, went into Felix's to buy souvenirs-Harvard sweatshirts and stuffed animals, in particular...
...January 26th Compound," which is also known as the "Paradise Commune." Members adopted an eleven-point code of conduct. Among other things, it forbade fighting, wife-beating, card games and the "capitalist sin" of alcohol. Along with communal chores, members read from the writings of Mao Tse-tung, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. At least half of Paradise's adults are unemployed, but leaders boasted that funds were coming in from bank robberies. As Toro said: "We do not promise...
Then came a Cuban flag, bold and bright, for a moment reminding me that once, when Castro was still in the hills, he looked like a hero to many of us. Then I remembered "'Al paredon [To the Wall]!" and the betrayals that came before the sugar cane. But the kids could not remember-these wispy-bearded caricatures of the sainted...
...would no doubt excoriate the passionate bomb throwers of America's S.D.S. and other extremist groups as dangerous amateurs, afflicted with the "infantile disease of leftism." Almost certainly, he would be highly suspicious of Tito's reliance on a market economy and private farming, bewildered by Castro's wild-eyed barbudos, and appalled by Che's adventuristic forays in Latin America. Although he took a certain satisfaction in being revered as the Marx of the 20th century, Lenin was a man of personal modesty; he might well consider the cult of Chairman Mao a trifle excessive...
...Although they were U.S. citizens, over 21 and literate in Spanish, two Los Angeles County residents discovered that they were ineligible to vote because they could not pass an English literacy test required by state law. Genoveva Castro and Jesus Parra challenged the requirement on the ground that it violated their 14th Amendment right to equal protection of the laws. In a pioneering decision, the California Supreme Court ruled that the right to vote cannot be denied solely on the basis of the English literacy test. "It would be ironic," said the court, "that petitioners, who are heirs...