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...pick up a dangerous momentum early in this century. Worker unrest resulted in the creation of a National Guard in 1912, but despite this governmental edict workers' parties only grew in number and strength. It was during this period--ten years after the First World War--that Farabundo Marti formed El Salvador's Communist Party to oppose the ruling oligarchy of foreigners and El Salvadorans willing to aid their interests. In the 50-odd years since then, tension between the workers and the government has increased...
...soldier in khakis-- that was the first thing I saw, or at least the first thing I noticed. A machine gun strapped to his side, he had stationed himself by the exit of Cuba's Jose Marti International Airport, only a few miles from the base where a Soviet brigade allegedly practices its maneuvers...
...that he and his friends considered Havana "one long chain of wild nights." Lest Cubans forget, a reminder is kept in the museum at the Moncada garrison, where the revolution lost its first men. It is a photograph of a drunken American sailor urinating on the statue of Jose Marti, Cuba's most revered hero...
...Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, 87, the grand old man of global neutrality, stepped off a Yugoslav air force Boeing 727 at Havana's Jose Marti Airport last week, he was stiffly embraced by his host, Cuban President Fidel Castro, 52, the tireless huckster of import-export revolution. It was hardly the sort of comradely bear hug the two leaders have exchanged in the past. This time they were preparing for a fierce showdown over the direction and leadership of what some diplomats called "the very soul" of the Third World...
...principal actors in that anachronistic tableau, Andorra's co-Princes, are France's President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and the Spanish Bishop of Urgel, Joan Marti Alanis. Their co-sovereignty over Andorra dates back to 1278, when their predecessors, the Count de Foix and the Urgel bishop, settled a dispute over who owned the 190 sq. mi. territory by agreeing to rule it in tandem. The Spanish title of co-Prince was handed down in a direct line to the present bishop, while on the French side it passed to the Kings of Navarre, then to Napoleon...