Word: fortresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guevara, a slim asthmatic who keeps a glass inhalator close at hand, becomes the country's economic commissar (while holding onto his auxiliary job as commander of Havana's Cabana Fortress). The son of an Argentine Communist mother, Guevara got his M.D. in Buenos Aires, then decided that "curing nations is more exciting than curing people." He turned up in Red-lining Guatemala of the early 1950s, where the man who was instructed to hire him as an inspector in the Agrarian Department remembers only that Che was identified as a "Communist from abroad." With this sinecure...
...Eisenhower, Marshall, Bradley and Churchill stepping in to upset his foolproof traps for the enemy. Triumph begins in September 1943, ends with a diary entry in June of 1946. The book's thesis is that Alanbrooke tried to draw the Germans out to the very periphery of Fortress Europa so as to take the heat off both the Russians and the coming Allied attack on Normandy. This idea was at the heart of the Italian campaign. But according to Alanbrooke, Ike and Mark Clark never did seem to know what that part of the war was all about...
...almost the same moment, civil war broke out in Ruanda. A minor quarrel between a subchief of the Muhutus and a group of Watutsis sparked bloody incidents all over the country. Armed bands of Muhutus, feeling the strength of their superior numbers, turned almost every hill into a natural fortress. Though the Muhutus left the Watutsi women and children alone, they showed no mercy to the males: those they did not kill they maimed by chopping off their feet. They put banana plantations to the torch, set dozens of villages afire, left some helpless old people to burn to death...
...what I do or don't do the speculation will continue." His mind made up, his plans well laid, Rockefeller last week announced the decision that he had nailed down in the conference: next month he will make speeches and talk politics in Vice President Nixon's fortress California and potentially pivotal Oregon. While still disavowing his candidacy, Rockefeller was obviously stalking the presidency a lot sooner and a lot more seriously than his friends thought he would...
...misdeed that is not described; he only suspects that his crime is "opacity"-that stubborn, unknowing refusal to bare his soul which has always enraged a man's neighbors and masters. If the literary shades of other prisoners seem to be sharing the cell in the old prison-fortress -for instance, Joseph K. of Franz Kafka's The Trial-they are quickly evicted with the first entry of the jailer. He is a redhaired, comic-opera functionary who promptly asks the prisoner for a waltz. As they whirl off down the corridor, it becomes plain what Author Nabokov...