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...West for its nuclear buildup and its cold war mentality. But privately, as the book reveals for the first time, he wrote to fellow-traveling Czechoslovak Theologian Josef Hromádka, saying: "My hair stands on end" at the concept of "freedom and peace" through "Nikita, Mao and even Fidel." Hromádka's association of the Christian Gospel with the political cause of Communism, he said, was a mirror image of the sin committed by Niebuhr and other anti-Communist "Western fathers...
DIED. Manuel Urrutia Lleo, 79, Cuban judge who in January 1959 became the first provisional President of Fidel Castro's revolutionary government, only to be denounced as a traitor by Castro six months later and forced to resign; in New York City. Urrutia, who charged that Castro had transformed Cuba into a "Red hell," spent four years under house arrest and in asylum at the Venezuelan and Mexican embassies in Havana before gaining safe-conduct to the U.S., where he led a coalition of 22 anti-Castro exile groups...
...indirect armed aggression" by Cuba and other Communist nations that are funneling weapons to the leftist guerrillas. Though the Mexican President has refused to give them aid in the Salvadoran conflict, he publicly supports the leftists. In addition, he has a longstanding and effusive friendship with Cuba's Fidel Castro at a time when the U.S. wants to get tough with Castro...
...urged to invest his money elsewhere than in his shoe, dress more expensively and circulate with other celebrities. The result is Zuckerman in nighttown with a glamorous Irish actress named Caesara O'Shea who reads Kierkegaard and disappears in the morning to continue her top-secret affair with Fidel Castro...
...Archie or war comics," he says. "Those are below me. I don't buy too many D.C. Comics like Superman or Batman--they're geared for kids." Occasionally, his despotism provokes unrest among the Quincy House kulaks. A suggestion book in the library contains the following note, signed "Fidel": "Keep our comic book library up to date with new issues of Sergeant Rock. He only shows up with a new issue sporadically. We need our blood and guts on a regular basis." Another note in the book is more terse: "We need new Sgt. Rock comics...