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When Fidel Castro publicly admitted "a well-founded reason for discontent" developing between Cuba and the Soviet Union, Mr. Mikoyan raced for Havana. By its lack of interest in this discontent, however, the Administration suggests that its ultimate aim is not to undermine Soviet control but simply to crush socialism, autonomous or not, in the Caribbean. It is hard to believe that the government, cherishing an image of monolithic Communism, is actually insensitive to the distinction...
...College. The increasingly competitive admissions crush at Andover does not mean that public schools are being abandoned: only 2-3% of U.S. schoolchildren go to the nation's 2,400 independent schools (more than half of them day schools). But within that fraction there is room for much experimentation, pacesetting, quality and growth. In Florida and Colorado, the number of independent schools has doubled in five years. In Manhattan, some schools have to turn down eight out of nine applicants...
Even after the Leopoldville regime arrested Kalonji last January for his secessionist activities, Mining State went right ahead as an independent nation, issuing its own postage stamps and flying its own flag, convinced that Premier Cyrille Adoula's central regime lacked the resolve to crush Kasai's lucrative rebellion...
...aggression against Yemen will be considered an act of aggression against the Soviet Union." No one yet seems to be threatening Yemen except the late Imam's relatives. Prince Hassan, Badr's uncle and chief of Yemen's U.N. delegation, took off from New York to crush the rebellion...
...Chiang reactionaries." Its critical scenes occur "behind the bars of the so-called Sino-American Co-operation Organization (SACO), a big concentration camp jointly operated by the U.S. imperialists' secret service and its lackeys, the Chiang gang. They use all the most diabolical means of torture to crush the will of the captured Communists...