Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said he is not particularly worried that Harvard students are getting their education's here: "Castro learned what he learned in the educational system controlled by Batista...
...that followed Che Guevara's death in October 1967, no role was more bizarre than that of a bit player named Antonio Arguedas, 41, a former Bolivian Interior Minister. By his own account, Arguedas smuggled a copy of Guevara's diary out of Bolivia and into Fidel Castro's hands, then fled his country to avoid arrest. He has been involved in a cat-and-mouse struggle with Bolivian authorities ever since...
Aside from a few journalists and hijacked airline passengers, about the only Americans who have visited Cuba in recent years were 216 youths who journeyed there last fall, intent on helping Fidel Castro to attain his goal of a record 10 million-ton sugar harvest. Last week the 216 docked at St. John, N.B., and another 600 young militants boarded the same ship to replace them. The achievements of the first group may prove difficult to duplicate. Taking the name Brigada Venceremos (rough translation: the We Shall Overcome Brigade), they worked alongside Cuban workers, including, on one occasion, none other...
Michael Kazin '70 said the Cuban people love their work so much that city people volunteered their free time and weekends to go out into the fields and harvest the crops. Even Fidel Castro, he said, spends four hours each day cutting cane, and "cuts like hell...
...bone up properly on New Leftese, one must go to the sources, to an anthology doubling as a style manual like The New Left Reader: all dialectics illustrated from late-model Castro to early Rudd (Mark I). And for training the ear, there is a living-vernacular record: Rebellion and Repression, onetime S.D.S. President Tom Hayden's testimony before the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence and the House Un-American Activities Committee. At times the work is a near masterpiece in the invective of martyrdom...