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Felix's has also had other controversial customers. In 1959, when Cuban Premier Fidel Castro came to Harvard to speak, about six of his aides, dressed in green jump suits, went into Felix's to buy souvenirs-Harvard sweatshirts and stuffed animals, in particular...
...January 26th Compound," which is also known as the "Paradise Commune." Members adopted an eleven-point code of conduct. Among other things, it forbade fighting, wife-beating, card games and the "capitalist sin" of alcohol. Along with communal chores, members read from the writings of Mao Tse-tung, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. At least half of Paradise's adults are unemployed, but leaders boasted that funds were coming in from bank robberies. As Toro said: "We do not promise...
...intercepted Jean-Paul Sartre as he was leaving a mass meeting in Paris three years ago. The meeting had been called to protest Bolivia's jailing of Regis Debray, a French journalist and a friend of Fidel Castro...
Tide of Publicity. So far the kidnaping technique has proved to be a startlingly effective way of springing political prisoners. Equally important, it has brought worldwide attention to Latin America's urban guerrilla bands and the generally conservative regimes that they oppose. As long ago as 1958, Fidel Castro's Cuban guerrillas seized Juan Manuel Fangio, the Argentine auto-racing champion, then freed him after a tide of publicity. In the early 1960s, kidnaping was widely used by rebels in Guatemala and elsewhere to raise funds, but the victims were rarely foreigners...
...composer spoke so clearly yesterday that it was easy to see how much we miss him. At every corner and question, we seem far short of the answers that Bach seems to have held in his hand. Fidel Castro once said that he missed Che as a man. In the same sense, we miss J. S. Bach...