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...struck for a $1.50 wage boost, to bring their pay to $2.50 a day. Though strikes are illegal, the miners stubbornly stuck to their walkout; they had no strike funds, no organization, ran the risk of losing all their social security and pension benefits from the government's puppet labor union. But their tenacity won them sympathizers; from the northern industrial provinces, the walkout fanned out into mines, factories and shipyards all over Spain until 100,000 workers were...
...High Gear. Leading the rebellious Kurds is veteran pro-Communist Mustafa Barzani, a onetime mullah (religious teacher) and military boss of a Red-supported puppet republic of Kurdistan just after the war. After the puppet state was dismantled in 1946. Barzani fled to Russia, returned only after Kassem staged his Communist-blessed revolution in Iraq in 1958. Kassem tried to curry favor among the Kurdish tribes to solidify his own power. He promised them Kurdish schools, Kurdish newspapers, a Kurdish political party. So that the Kurds would not get too strong, however, Kassem armed rival Kurdish clans, playing them...
...only the flimsiest façade of democracy. Arturo Frondizi, the deposed constitutional President who gave Peron's still-faithful descamisados (shirtless ones) a place on the ballot, still waits on his prison island in the Rio de la Plata. In the Buenos Aires Presidential Palace sits a puppet President, José Maria Guido, a minor politician who must wait, too-wait for the military men, who fear Peron, to decide what to do. Last week the generals made up their minds, and the result was a further flight of democracy from Argentina...
...substantiated by the presence of American military personnel in all parts of the country. And in history of American military aid to the French in the Indo-Chinese war prompts many of the Vietnamese to consider America as heir of French colonialism and the unpopular Pres. Diem as its puppet emperor...
...Midsummer Night's Dream. The best puppet picture ever made: a feature-length version of Shakespeare's play put together by Czechoslovakia's Jiri Trnka...