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...Helder," Brazil's famed voice of the poor and preacher of nonviolent revolution is a persistent nettle in the breeches of his country's military regime. At least eight of Dom Helder's associates have been arrested and tortured. He has been castigated as a "Fidel Castro in cassock" and disdainfully dubbed "the Red bishop." Lately he has been so judiciously ignored by Brazil's censored press that some educated people in Rio are surprised to learn that he is still alive...
Fulbright criticized every President from Harry Truman to Richard Nixon for being too doctrinaire or too heavy-handed in his use of American power abroad. The Senator was one of the few to warn John Kennedy against trying to topple Fidel Castro by landing rebels at the Bay of Pigs, and he opposed the armed intervention by Lyndon Johnson into the confused affairs of the Dominican Republic...
...Western Hemisphere's wall of isolation around Fidel Castro's Cuba is beginning to crumble. At a meeting in Washington of Foreign Ministers from nations of the Organization of American States, the U.S. State Department announced that the Argentine subsidiaries of Ford, General Motors and Chrysler may now legally export some $80 million worth of autos and trucks to Cuba...
...former adviser to Cuban President Fidel Castro and Chilean leader Salvador Allende yesterday linked black activism in the United States with revolutions in underdeveloped countries as the prime source for social change in the world today...
...well take a great man to solve some of the problems that the ministers must consider. High on the list will be what to do about Cuba. Partly on his own and partly at the urging of the Soviet Union, Fidel Castro has obliquely hinted that he would like to resume friendly relations with the rest of the hemisphere. Seven Latin American countries already have diplomatic relations with Castro. The U.S. economic embargo against Cuba becomes a little less effective each year as other Latins, eager to increase their exports, send catalogues of their goods to Havana...