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...refugees?by Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann, Artur Schnabel and Paul Tillich?that started the process of change. By special legislation in 1948, the U.S. began admitting more than 400,000 "displaced persons." Then came 32,000 refugees from the Hungarian revolt of 1956 and some 650,000 from Fidel Castro's seizure of Cuba in 1959. But only under President John F. Kennedy, great-grandson of an immigrant farmer from Ireland's County Wexford, did overall reform begin. According to the Immigration Act of 1965, which finally took effect...
...Ambassador Sumner Gerard has protested that the CIA is not in any manner trying to upset the Jamaican government, even though Washington is less than happy about Manley's warming friendship with Fidel Castro. Gerard's denials were reinforced last week by William H. Luers, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Affairs, who told a House subcommittee that allegations of U.S. interference were "totally false." If American citizens are engaged privately in "destabilizing" activities, Luers added, "we are prepared to cooperate fully with the governments of the area to bring them to justice...
...that point, Jagan was surely right. Under Burnham, the Guyana government has shifted markedly to the left, most visibly in cultivating relations with Jagan's idol, Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. Washington, which lavished millions on Guyana in development projects to encourage Burnham's election in 1964, is upset. So are neighboring Venezuela and Brazil. Outsiders' suspicion has provoked a kind of fortress mentality on the part of Burnham, who optimistically called Jagan's return to Parliament "a warning to our enemies that we are a united people...
...Bolivia's refusal to extradite Klaus Barbie, the former Gestapo chief of Lyon, on France's request. Furthermore, the caller added, the dapper ambassador was marked for death because in 1967, as a Bolivian colonel, he had supervised the CIA-trained forces that tracked down and killed Fidel Castro's roving revolutionary Che Guevara, a martyr in many versions of leftist scripture. The gun used in the assassination, said the spokesman, was the same one used last October in Paris in an unsuccessful attempt on the life of a Spanish military attache. French ballistics experts tentatively confirmed...
Waiting for Fidel Sunday...