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...resolution was originally proposed by Venezuela in protest against a militant program by Castro and his Minister of Industry, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, of exporting Communist revolution throughout Latin America. Cuban arms and Cuban-trained guerrillas turned up in the 1960s in Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Haiti, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Bolivia. But after 1967, when Guevara was killed in Bolivia, Castro muted his once proclaimed role as the "Líder de las Americas. " Today few hemisphere leaders worry that the Cuban dictator will try to interfere in their internal affairs...
Public access can never be accused of being monotonous. The schedule in Reading, Pa., has included the regular half-hour Che-Lumumba-Jackson Collective Black Community News and a twelve-year-old budding sportscaster's report on the junior stock-car races. Bakersfield, Calif., has programmed square-dance instruction, an environmentalist appeal to save Redrock Canyon and a college spoof called Stagnet...
...comrade who is also in jail for the London bombings, formed the "People's Democracy," a militant offshoot of the civil rights movement, and took their cause to the streets. The sisters had been studying to become teachers. But they also began to investigate the revolutionary polemics of Che Guevara and Soledad Brother George Jackson. The girls learned the techniques of bombmaking and small-arms use in I.R.A. training courses across the border in the Republic. By the time they plotted the London bombings, both girls had become seasoned veterans of back-alley skirmishes with British troops...
...started a free-food program for the Bay Area's needy and aged that the S.L.A. had demanded. Then she stunned her family and friends by announcing that she had renounced them, joined her abductors, and adopted the name Tania, after the German-Argentine mistress of Latin American Revolutionary Che Guevara. Whether through conversion or coercion, she materialized last week in the role of a foul-mouthed bank robber. In the bewilderment shared by all who have followed the case, her anguished father Randolph A. Hearst exclaimed: "It's terrible! Sixty days ago, she was a lovely child. Now there...
...American and I began to talk. He was from Ann Arbor, Mich., and after graduating from the university there had gone to serve in the Peace Corps. He had originally worked in southern Bolivia, in the same area Che had operated in, but after a left-wing military coup in 1971 he had been forced out of the country with the rest of the corps. He was in La Paz on vacation from Nicaragua, where he was working. He told me of his experiences while in Bolivia, and how he'd been shot at during the time of the coup...