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Some analysts predict, however, that if a Santiago-Havana Communist axis were to emerge by the 1972 elections, the Administration might well feel impelled to take action. But the question remains: what could it do? Chile's neighbors are facing the same puzzle...
...comforted by perhaps the strangest and most elusive character of the entire drama. Code-named Tania, she was a dark, beautiful young woman in her mid-20s. She told Che that she was from Argentina. Actually, she was an East German girl named Tamara Bunke, who was sent to Havana in the mid-1960s by the Soviet KGB to keep tabs on Guevara...
...indicators was the fact that the huge Soviet AN-22 transports, used to fly earthquake relief supplies to Peru, were leaving Moscow with perhaps 65 passengers and arriving in Lima with only a dozen or so. The missing passengers, it is now assumed, were engineers who got off in Havana and went straight to Cienfuegos. The latest U-2 photos of the port show construction in progress of what are almost certainly bunkers for storing submarine-borne nuclear weapons...
...killed over Europe in a Spitfire.* For one brief, delirious moment of pure fantasy, Tom's grieving mother appears and, after turning out to be none other than Marlene Dietrich, goes briefly to bed with Hudson. Such diversions, alas, are all but drowned in endless talk, mainly in Havana's Floridita Bar, where Hudson, now completely taken over by Papa Hemingway, holds forth to politicians, bartenders, soldiers and sailors and, yes, an elderly, wise, warmhearted prostitute named Honest...
Skyjacking has been a Front specialty since July 1968, when the P.F.L.P. hijacked an Israeli El Al airliner just outside Rome and forced it to fly to Algeria. There, instead of providing the usual Havana-style side trip that had marked most previous air hijackings, the guerrillas refused to release the plane and all its passengers. Eventually they set free everyone except twelve Jewish men, who were held captive for five weeks until Israel agreed to hand over 16 convicted Arab terrorists "in gratitude" for the Israelis' release. The blackmail precedent had been...