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...Fidel Castro's disgust, however, the Russians have forsworn attempts to stir up revolution in the hemisphere in favor of the so-called via pacifica-or peaceful way. That policy has been paying off handsomely, notably in Chile, whose Moscow-bankrolled Communist Party backed Marxist Dr. Salvador Allende, winner of a plurality in the recent presidential election. If he is voted in by the Chilean Congress next month as expected, he would become the first Communist-supported candidate for President to win a free election...
Sibling rivalry is one thing, but Juanita Castro may well be carrying it to an extreme. In Kyoto, Japan, last week for an anti-Communist rally, Fidel Castro's younger sister-who once helped raise funds for his revolutionary movement-could not contain her antagonisms. "It was true that the Cuban people were in miserable conditions under the Batista dictatorship," said Juanita, who has been living in Miami since defecting from Cuba in 1964, "but Castro's dictatorship has made it worse." For the sake of democracy in Cuba, she dramatically added, she would even...
...took a month before the pot began to boil. On Thursday, July 23, leaflets began circulating around the Square urging people to celebrate the anniversary of Fidel Castro's July 25 attack on the Moncada Barracks by holding a "block party" on the Common that Saturday night. Although it did not say so explicitly, the leaflet clearly implied that those who came should be prepared to celebrate violently...
Castro's Congratulations. Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, who had reportedly contributed several suitcases-full of hard currency to the Allende campaign, sent his congratulations. In a journalistic pre-emptive strike, the Soviet party paper Pravda accused the U.S. of having "an intention to interfere in the internal affairs of Chile." In point of fact, Washington was reluctant to take any position at all on Allende's emergence, although it knew full well that his nationalization program would eventually affect virtually all of the $700 million U.S. investment in Chile...
...walls of the tiny study in his modest home in Santiago's patrician Providencia district, Dr. Salvador Allende has hung the pictures of his revolutionary heroes. There, last week, surrounded by photographs of Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara-as well as one of Eleanor Roosevelt-Allende talked with TIME Correspondent David...