Word: che
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fidel Castro's one-man brain trust, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, last week lectured 5,000 Red Chinese in Peking on how the Marxist blessings of Castro Cuba can be carried to country after country throughout the rest of Latin America. "It is," he said coldly, "through arming the people and smashing the puppet dictatorial regimes." In Washington a high U.S. official dealing with Latin America took a look at the endless crises besetting the hemisphere's governments and likened the situation to a "mountain of sugar melting under a fire hose...
...Latin American delegation. Hora- cio Godoy, an expert on South America's foreign policy and Professor of Law at the University of La Plata, will contrast his opinions with those of the former secretary of the Cuban Sugar Institute, Henrique Menoca, who was until recently second in command to Che Guevera, the Cuban Finance Minister...
...Soft-spoken Chen Che Lee, 49, began operations in Hong Kong in 1946 with a small textile mill and 150 workers. Today his 5,000 employees work three shifts daily producing 150,000 pajamas and blouses a month. In 1956 he sold a million dollars worth of clothes in the U.S.; last year his American exports totaled $12 million...
With Horacio Godoy, a professor of Law at the University of La Plata, Henrique Menoca, a former assistant to Che Guevera in the Cuban Finance Ministry, will represent Latin America...
Pennies, Not Pesos. The effect was somewhat different from what Castro in tended. Instead of rallying. Cubans jittered. Coins virtually disappeared from circulation, as citizens put their reliance on metal money rather than on National Bank Chief "Che" Guevara's autographed paper. Coffee vendors refused to sell 3? cups of coffee until customers produced exact change, and bus conductors had trouble providing change for riders. As many as 2,000 people waited outside the U.S. embassy all night to line up for visas in the morning; appointments were scheduled ahead to February...