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Surprisingly, some of the sharpest criticism of Castro is coming from European leftists who have frequently visited Cuba, talked with him and supported his goals. Polish-born Journalist K.S. Karol, who writes out of Paris for Le Monde, Le Nouvel Observateur and Britain's New Statesman, is one. His Guerrillas in Power: The Course of the Cuban Revolution has become required reading for U.S. intelligence and Latin American specialists. French Agronomist Réne Dumont also faults Castro in his Cuba: Is It Socialist...
...Polish-born Brzezinski has something of the pride of an adopted son in such achievements, though he recognizes that in some ways the U.S. is its own worst enemy. For the technetronic revolution it exports causes profound disturbances in the less developed nations. Suddenly aware of material progress, they conspicuously and maddeningly lack the means to achieve it. Their acute frustration causes not a revolution in rising expectations, says Brzezinski, but a "specter of insatiable aspirations...
...generation finds him a particularly sympathetic figure. He is in the Establishment, yet out of it; he has dipped into a dozen different fields, yet is tied to none. He possesses both passionate interest and a kind of cool grace. "He is their ultimate vision of the writer," says Polish-born Novelist Jerzy Kosinski (The Painted Bird), one of George's countless literary friends. "To them he comes closest to the American conception of what a writer ought to be-that he should not just live off the imagination, like Proust, but should re-create an ideal search...
...Rogers plan is not an initiative for peace," maintained Begin. "It is an initiative for Israel's destruction." The Polish-born Begin, who was commander of the Jewish terrorist group Irgun Zvai Leumi in pre-independence days, appeared to be digging in his heels for both principle and politics. Elected to the first Knesset after independence, he has been Labor's principal opposition ever since, occasionally with effective results. Shortly before the 1967 war, Begin forced Premier Levi Eshkol to give up his added post of Defense Minister to the more aggressive and knowledgeable Moshe Dayan...
...Gurion's Polish-born wife Paula, who died in 1968, once said: "Anyone can be a Prime Minister, but not everyone can be a Ben-Gurion." Her husband, whose last name literally means "son of a lion cub," was Israel's principal founder in 1948; he chose the name of the new country, served as its Premier for its first 15 years and, as "B-G," became a stern, uncompromising but well-loved father figure. Since 1965, however, he has become less and less active in politics...