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...Suitable Heroism. The diary business out of the way, Michéle concentrated on the mystique of Che's death. She came across a young Bolivian journalist named Jorge Torrico, who offered her information if she would help him get to France, where, he said, he wanted to study. Michéle agreed. With Torrico's help, she re-created the events leading up to Che's execution in La Higuera. Those who supervised the murder, she asserts, were two CIA operatives named Ramos and Gonzales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporters: Fairy Tales | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

...withdraw our consent from society, or deny ourselves its protections--of which the 2S deferment is the first to come to mind. Regrettably or not, very few of us have done that; this exposes as a gross version of cowardice (and as untoward naivete) our arrogant projection of dissident heroism onto the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Nor are fishing expeditions into University investments or sources of funds likely to hed much light on the matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD AND THE WAR | 11/16/1967 | See Source »

...generals. The criticism has not always been fair. True, units of militiamen failed on the field of battle time after time in the War of 1812; and in the Civil War, the militia often simply walked away, ignoring the orders of their officers. But there has been heroism as well. In both World War II and the Korean conflict, divisions of the National Guard-the latter-day militia-performed admirably. Peacetime Guardsmen have served loyally to restore order after countless hurricanes, floods, riots and other internal disturbances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: IT'S TO CHANGE THE GUARD | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...traditional Weila Waile, which the Clancys turn into a laff riot, comes off in The Dubliners' brawny hands as the grisly epic of infanticide that it actually is. The often sentimentalized Rising of the Moon becomes in the Dubliners' ver sion a powerful, harrowing hymn of revolutionary heroism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Singers: Long Gone Macushla | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

...Michel baptized, and after the war refuses to give him up to his aunt and uncle in Palestine. Her battle is joined by the French Catholic Church up to the level of cardinal. In fighting assorted Zionists, the Catholics revert to their underground railway, but what was heroism in wartime is now kidnaping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Body Snatchers | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

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