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...more than a hot-bed of amateur politicos. The Council does have its share of amateur politicians, whose antics create a misrepresentative picture of the organization as a whole. However many Council members, including some of its leaders, find that ambitious college-wide activities provide the best outlet for their ambitions; and this fact produces many of the Council's most valuable projects...
Signals of the turn inside Trujillo's supertight Caribbean island nation are clear. After years of posing as Latin America's strongest anti-Communist bulwark, the dictator has started cozying up to Castro and the Soviet bloc. Six months ago Trujillo's Radio Caribe propaganda outlet adopted a Marxist, anti-U.S. cant in its commentary. Last August the dictator sent emissaries to Europe and began the first of a series of secret meetings with Iron Curtain leaders; rumors are buzzing in Ciudad Trujillo that diplomatic relations will soon be established with Poland and Russia...
...butt of jokes-could patrol their own waters with the proper equipment and know-how. Burke saw real defense potential in the total of 390 vessels (see map) and 55,000 men. Only landlocked Bolivia has no navy; backward Paraguay, with a 1,100-mile river link its only outlet to the sea, boasts two gunboats-and two rear admirals...
...Información, the last Havana paper not under direct government control and the only one that did not subscribe to the government-owned Prensa Latina news agency, was also the only remaining journalistic outlet for even mild criticism of Castro. Last week, when Información, bedeviled by government economic pressures, decided to abandon the struggle, even the façade of press freedom finally collapsed in Cuba...
...Scholars, a group of gifted but not necessarily widely recognized women, on a part-time basis. At the great majority of educational institutions, part-time study is discouraged. For the married woman whose family obligations make full-time academic or creative activity impossible, the Institute will offer a unique outlet as well as a challenge to prove to other colleges and universities--and to industries or professions--that part-time academic work can result in significant intellectual achievement...