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Word: niedergang (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1971-1971
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...under torture." That is unproven, but one thing is beyond dispute. Padilla's evidently forced recantation only further estranged Castro from his quondam admirers. "The pit between Cuba's leaders and the non-Communist European or Latin American Left is being dug deeper," wrote Marcel Niedergang, a longtime friend and supporter of Castro, in France's Le Monde. For his part, Fidel turned his big-bore verbal artillery against the intellectuals. "So they are at war with us," said Castro in a Havana speech. "Magnificent! They are nothing more than brazen pseudo-leftists who instead of being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: When Friends Fall Out | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

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