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Bored with the Church. Ramparts was founded in 1962 as a liberal Roman Catholic quarterly by Edward Keating, 41, an articulate San Franciscan with a sizable inheritance. When the magazine went nowhere, Keating readily gave up religious commentary for political muckraking. "Quite frankly," says Hinckle, "there weren't enough Catholic laymen to write for and to buy the magazine. Besides, we got bored with just the church...
...accent has indeed been on crushing. Within a week of their introduction, the Guards were on the rampage in Peking, roughing up Chinese in Western dress, changing street signs to "revolutionary" names, and humiliating Franciscan nuns. The Guards aimed not only at rooting out all foreign influence in Mao's China but also at obliterating China's own preCommunist past. Nor was that all. "We are not only stirring up a revolutionary storm in China," they cried, "we shall spread it over the whole world." As for anyone who dared to oppose the new trend, the Guards pledged...
...Guards were striking at many of the things that the Chinese have always respected. Buddhist shrines were defaced; schools were ordered closed for six months (to revise curriculums along purely Maoist lines). Respect for womanhood and religion was forcibly forgotten. Into British-controlled Hong Kong came eight victims: exhausted Franciscan nuns, one of whom died after being thrown onto a wheelbarrow and harshly trundled across the border...
...aide, whom Kennedy appointed Under Secretary of the Navy. In his forthcoming book, The Pleasure of His Company (Harper & Row), now being serialized by McCall's, Fay recalls some other revealing Kennedyisms. "When the war is over and you are out there in sunny California," Kennedy told San Franciscan Fay in 1945, "I'll be back here with Dad trying to parlay a lost PT boat and a bad back into a political advantage." The next year, "Big Joe," as J.F.K. sometimes called his father, had his way, and Jack was running for Congress in Boston...
...government arrested 15 accomplices, including Franciscan Friars Miguel Loredo and Luis Serafin Ajuria, Betancourt's brother, two Cubans who had hidden Betancourt on a farm, five contacts and-in the government's first admission that Betancourt had not acted alone-five plane passengers who had "paid various sums of money to Betancourt so that he would include them on the trip." Fidel Castro blamed the whole unhappy incident on "Yankee imperialist policy that constantly stimulates and pays deserters," but he was clearly even madder that Betancourt had eluded Cuba's porous security system for so long...