Word: latina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most part, Negroes rejected the call of Black Powermonger Stokely Carmichael to "get your gun." On the evening of King's death, Carmichael was undecided as to what response he should make. Then, intelligence sources said, he received a call from the Cuban press agency Prensa Latina in New York, after which he appeared on Washington streets waving a pistol and urging blacks to arm. "A lot of people who were afraid to pick up guns will now pick up guns," he said later. "They clearly made a mistake when they killed Dr. King. It would have been...
...Soviet ambassador "friendly warning" that it would no longer provide a forum for Communist propaganda. The Algiers correspondent for France's Communist daily L'Humanite, which bitterly denounced the coup, was booted out of the country for "exaggerated" reporting. Police also closed the office of Prensa Latina, Cuba's news and propaganda agency. When Fidel Castro castigated "military despotism and counterrevolution" in Algeria, a Cuban embassy official was called in for a sharp dressing down. Just how, Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika inquired acidly, did Castro take power...
...refinery and its biggest petrochemical plant. Naples, now Italy's second biggest seaport (after Genoa), has become so thoroughly industrialized that there is little more room to expand, and Caserta to the north has grown into a mighty concentration of more than 100 plants. The city of Latina, just below Rome, has risen out of a drained marsh to become a bustling center of steel processing, pharmaceuticals and cinema studios. The discovery of methane gas reserves has brought three major petroleum companies to Ferrandina. At Sicily's port of Augusta, the Esso refinery has attracted so many other...
...Marguerite Caetani, 83, founder and patroness of the Italian literary magazine Botteghe Oscure, a wealthy Connecticut Yankee who wed the scion of an 800-year-old Roman family in 1911, provided a forum for both famed and struggling writers, among them Eliot, Gide, Camus and E. E. Cummings; in Latina, Italy...
...Castro may be getting the best of the bargain. Incoming wire service copy makes a useful window to the West. There are A. P. tickers in the Foreign Relations Ministry, the Union of Young Communists, the United Party of the Socialist Revolution and in many other government offices. Prensa Latina, the Castroite wire service that peddles propaganda free to any taker, might go out of business without its A.P. wires; much of what comes in is trimmed to Castro's line and sent right out again...