Word: last
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mainland to talk things over. He got the cold shoulder. Roused from his bed in the middle of the night to see Mao, he was lectured like an errant schoolboy. Complaining to Foreign Minister Chen Yi, Subandrio was answered in "brutal and arrogant" language. Roused again on his last night in Peking, he was pressured into a joint communiqué promising respect for "proper rights and interests" of local Chinese, then bundled off home...
...this was a far cry from the days when Indonesia was one of the first countries in the world to recognize Red China. By last week the Times of Indonesia was demanding the expulsion of Red China's Ambassador Huang Chen. Radio Peking had its own pat explanation of what had gone wrong: "Some time ago, the U.S. sent a special agent pretending to be a scientist to Indonesia to fan up an anti-China campaign . . ." But the truth was that if Mao and Chen Yi and Ambassador Huang were themselves U.S. secret agents, they could hardly have done...
...labels of the Cuban revolution, high government officials have divided into moderate "friends of Cuba" and far-left "friends of China" (for their admiration of Red China's methods). Last week Strongman Fidel Castro shucked off top friends of Cuba and gave all significant power to friends of China...
...always carries in his breast pocket, is political chief. His pony-tailed brother Raul is military boss, commanding the 35,000-man rebel army that is the regime's principal arm of force and terror, notably for rounding up all suspected oppositionists on a charge of "counterrevolution" (last week's bag: 250 prisoners...
...grabbed off half the burgeoning National Institute for Agrarian Reform (INRA), which is rapidly matching the rebel army in size and importance. Its headquarters is the most tightly guarded building in Havana. As boss of INRA's industrialization division, Guevara has a free hand for revamping Cuba; last week he seized the $14 million Havana Riviera Hotel. His appointment as National Bank chief touched off a run on savings banks-which Guevara thought "logical," considering his "fame of being extremely radical...