Word: fidelity
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...pair of East German army officers were dragged from their cars and knocked about like so many imperialists. The offense was severe enough to draw a stiff protest from Pankow-one of many objections from Communist countries to China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Even Cuba's Fidel Castro, no believer in gentle Communism, denounced the Peking paranoids. "It is a sad circumstance," lamented a Havana editorial, "that the People's Republic of China has given the enemies of socialism cause for laughing and taunting." Russia weighed in with its own protest after Red Guards halted...
...least 800 Americans still remain in Cuba. Some are businessmen who went to Cuba with U.S. companies and decided to stay on despite Fidel Castro; most are Cubans who were born in the U.S. or who acquired American citizenship through naturalization and went back south. But they all have one thing in common: a desperate desire to return...
...nonproductive, whom Castro does not want anyway. Since the U.S.-sponsored Havana-to-Miami shuttle flights take out only 850 a week of the 200,000 to 300,000 Cubans who want to get out, the stranded Americans might have to wait four to six years-unless Fidel dreams up something new that he can barter them...
...bullets, getting beaten with rifle butts, being jailed, deported and mobbed, all the while ceaselessly badgering news-shy governments to relax press censorship and winning a reputation as an implacable foe of dictatorships both right and left, which he amply documented in articles and books (Freedom Is My Beat, Fidel Castro: Rebel-Liberator or Dictator?); of a heart attack; while covering an economics conference in Bogota, Colombia (see THE WORLD...
...with a villanelle of squeals and grunts. The caterwauling doggerel went on, with the audience chanting a "Sound Mass"-"MUTAMA! MUTAMA! M'MUTA!"-and Actress Vanessa Redgrave, 29, whose benefit appearances in the past have included ban-the-bomb marches, standing up in Castro-style fatigues to sing Fidel's freedom song, Guantanamera. Before the moon was down, leonine Poet Robert Graves, 70, advised the kids on using drugs: "A real person needs nothing like that." Unnecessary advice, since most of the poetasters were already high on beer and left the hall in a shambles...