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Last week Schäffer added insult to injury. Through a spokesman he announced that after May 5, West Germany would refuse to pay any further cash contributions toward the support of the allied forces in Germany, which in the absence of a German army, are his nation's sole defense. The Germans would talk about the question with their allies, said the spokesman, "but we are not going to give them anything...
...seat. No sooner had the cheering died down than the President's 22-year-old daughter Maria Eugenia and her husband, pro-government Publisher Samuel Moreno, stepped into the presidential box. In the Colombian equivalent for booing, the throng angrily whistled them out of the stadium-an insult that doubtless threw hot-tempered General Rojas Pinilla into a boiling rage...
Guevara confessed himself a "partisan of free enterprise within the limits imposed by the nation's realities." Lechin answered with the ultimate insult: "Bourgeois!" Guevara then charged that Lechin, through a revolutionary manifesto, lad touched off the May 1949 attempt to seize the tin mines that ended with old-regime troops shooting down many miners. But it is an M.N.R. article of faith that the mines' tin-baron owners and the government they dominated provoked the massacre. Moving to the kill, Lechin got up a convention resolution denouncing Guevara for "inexact and tendentious statements." Siles, who could lose...
...demanded, "must Harvard insult a large body of loyal alumni by inviting so dubious a character to lecture? My conscience will not allow me to continue financial support to the college while such an attitude prevails, nor can I continue to urge others...
...short, "In the South the Negro's person and property are practically subject to the whim of any white person who wishes to take advantage of him or to punish him for any real or fancied wrong doing or 'insult'... Violence may occur at any time and it is the fear of it as much as the violence itself that creates the injustice and the insecurity." (Arnold Rose, The Negro in America...