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...also been accused of being involved in plots to kill South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963, Haitian Dictator François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier that same year, Congo Nationalist Patrice Lumumba in 1961 and Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1961. Last week TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich, who has spent four years researching a book on Trujillo's assassination, reported that the CIA actually was involved in three plots to kill the dictator. In 1958 the agency promised to provide a group of dissident Dominicans with a sharpshooter and rifle if they could induce...
...John Kennedy. Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King. Lee Harvey Ornald. Malcolm X. Diem, Nhu, George Lincoln Rockwell, Refect TrujilluHendrik Verwoerd, Medgar Evers, Patrice Lumumba, Viola Liuzzo, Rev. James Reed and Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman were among the best known...
Public access can never be accused of being monotonous. The schedule in Reading, Pa., has included the regular half-hour Che-Lumumba-Jackson Collective Black Community News and a twelve-year-old budding sportscaster's report on the junior stock-car races. Bakersfield, Calif., has programmed square-dance instruction, an environmentalist appeal to save Redrock Canyon and a college spoof called Stagnet...
Elsewhere in the world, there were clear signs that the Chilean President had gained instant martyrdom among radicals, alongside Patrice Lumumba of the Congo (now Zaire) and Che Guevara. In Paris, a crowd of 30,000 marched through the streets shouting, "Down with the murderers and the CIA!" In Rome, there were sympathetic work stoppages and eulogies proclaiming that "Allende is an idea that does not die." Even moderate politicians publicly regretted that another republic had succumbed to rule by junta. The West German government, for instance, expressed its "deep dismay" and its hope that "democratic conditions will soon return...
...Embassy, the Rhodesian Information Center and the South African Embassy. At each stop statements of indictment are read, and support for liberation fighters is reaffirmed. There is to be one more stop, at the United States State Department, and a rally at the Washington Monument, which has been renamed Lumumba Square for African Liberation Day. But before the march comes...