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...noonday all Havana closed down. Supporters were trucked in from the countryside to join Habaneras who were given a half-holiday for a "Date with the Fatherland." After the standard delay, during which the crowd of 300,000 sharpened its appetite by shouting "Fidel, give it to the Yankees," Castro arrived. He shouted to the mob, which he called "this free and sovereign assembly," that "no nation of Latin America tas dared to have diplomatic relations with the Popular Republic of [Communist] China. The Revolutionary Government wishes to ask the people if it wants to establish relations." The chant rose...
South Korea's caretaker government rescinded martial law one night last week, and the move proved premature. Hundreds of students marched through the streets of Seoul shaking down pedestrians for American cigarettes ("Our politicians live in luxury-foreign cigarettes will burn the fatherland!"), seizing Japanese records from tearooms ("Japanese swords are hidden in these melodies!"), and dragging civil servants out of cars bearing blue, official plates ("Why are you using official transport after office hours? Who do you think you are-Syngman Rhee or somebody?"). The puritanical demonstrators lit big bonfires of cigarettes and records and then swept through...
...being synthetically inflamed by Fidel Castro, who was crying that the U.S. planned to do him harm. He almost seemed to be trying to taunt the U.S. into intervening-and most Cubans thought a J.S. attack to be a live possibility. Hotel telephone operators answered calls by saying, "Fatherland or Death! Number, please." For the second time in less than a week, the U.S. protested Castro's "slander'-specifically a propaganda pamphlet charging the U.S. with blowing up a munitions ship in Havana harbor last March. At week's end Castro seized the Hotel National (managed...
...pinch increased, Trujillo's brother Hector, who is the puppet President, wrote to the "Father of the New Fatherland" and "Financial Emancipator of the Nation" that it would be a "patriotic duty" for the bureaucracy to donate their December salaries to the cause. Lieut. General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr. permanently renounced his $3,000 monthly, salary as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Soon El Caribe blossomed with a solid page of names of army officers, cops and party hacks who hastened to say that they were delighted to kick in. But when the government proposed canceling Christmas...
...private's first doubts about the omnipotence of the fatherland occur when he finds his home in rubble, with no one knowing or caring what has become of his parents. In his search for them, he meets a girl (Lilo Pulver) who mistakenly construes his offer of a package of food as a proposition and gets so vexed that two full days pass before she surrenders her virginity. Then he marries her. But the regime that he and his countrymen have created will not leave him alone. His old professor (played with austere dignity by Author Remarque...