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...Colombian Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude), 53, complained after a hasty departure from his basement apartment in Bogota last month. Fearing a secret warrant for his arrest, the novelist and journalist fled to Mexico after Colombia had broken relations with Cuba and his personal friend Fidel Castro. The regime claims that the leading surrealist was merely trying to embarrass them by seeking refuge in the Mexican embassy in Colombia. But Garcia Marquez says, "I am shy and I look aggressive." Some countrymen offer a more illuminating possibility: He's got an electric typewriter...
...tung made a big splash in 1966, when at age 72 he reportedly swam nine miles down the Yangtze River. Then Rumania's Party Boss Nicolae Ceauşescu made hunting history in 1978 by bagging the largest bear ever shot in Europe. Now it appears that Fidel Castro too can boast of a fancy feat. During the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, he is said to have shot down singlehanded an American U-2 plane...
...congress, which ends this week in the Kremlin's modern, glass-fronted Palace of Congresses, attracted 5,002 delegates from around the U.S.S.R., plus representatives from 109 countries. It gave delegates the chance to ogle a host of Communist luminaries on the dais, from Cuban President Fidel Castro to Vietnamese Party Leader Le Duan and Polish Party Chief Stanislaw Kania...
...cent of the country owns over 60 per cent of the farmland, and 5 per cent of the people receive 50 per cent of the income. A corporation president in El Salvador recently told the truth: "It is a class war," he said. It does not take Fidel Castro to tell people they are being repressed, starved, taken away in the middle of the night, and shot down in the streets. A revolution was coming in El Salvador and no amount of cold war rhetoric can change that...
...many Third World leaders recognize that the "imperialist" West is far better able than the "progressive" East bloc to help in their economic development. As decolonialization, like colonialism before it, fades in Third World memories, economic development may gradually replace armed struggle as the order of the day. Even Fidel Castro last year warned his proteges, the Sandinistas of Nicaragua, to beware of Cuba's mistake of mortgaging the country's economy to the U.S.S.R. in exchange for an ideological blessing, military aid and political support...