Word: guevaras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lately, Cuba's bearded leader seems to be delivering nothing but stern exhortations. Two weeks ago, he wrote to Régis Debray, the French intellectual who was captured shortly before Bolivian soldiers killed Che Guevara in 1967 and was recently released from prison. "We are working hard and facing great difficulties," Castro confessed. "The march is truly long, Debray, because it is when power has been taken that we revolutionaries understand that we are barely starting...
...other troublemakers on the lam have gravitated to Socialist President Salvador Allende's capital from Bolivia, Brazil and Uruguay. Currently, the chief revolutionary in residence is Jules Regis Debray, 30, the French Marxist (some say Maoist) and Castro confidant who was captured in Bolivia shortly before Che Guevara was killed there in 1967. When he was released a month ago by the leftist military regime that recently seized power in La Paz, Debray had served nearly four years of a 30-year sentence for aiding Che's abortive attempt to stir up a peasant revolt. In Santiago...
...Jack in older years as the nice little rosy-faced Irishman with the clay pipe in his mouth, a rather nice broth of a boy. Not Bobby. Bobby could have been a revolutionary priest." Radical Tom Hayden explains-and explains away -Kennedy's admiration for Che Guevara: "Bobby Kennedy was attracted to strong human beings and unorthodox people, and he had a romantic feeling toward guerrillas and people who struggle; but he was a very shrewd politician, and careful to repress those romantic instincts...
Theologian, reluctant rebel, martyr of the German Confessing Church in its struggle against Hitler, Dietrich Bonhoeffer has become something of a religious folk hero in recent years, credited variously with being both a religious Che Guevara and a founder of secular theology. Eberhard Bethge, Bonhoeffer's student, coconspirator, and literary executor, expands what is already known about Bonhoeffer, but also adds important new material...
...than they are that is tempered by the knowledge that before any person can suggest alternatives to another, he must first be living in a manner that is consistent with what he or she is advising for others. The eight are a blending of the guerrilla tactics of Che Guevara and the passionate concern for human life of Jesus Christ. They share the conviction that militant action is necessary since passive demonstration has not produced an end to the war in Asia or a real effort to abolish the institution of racism that forms one side of the American triangle...