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Deep Surgery. When Castro was fighting Dictator Fulgencio Batista in Cuba's eastern mountains, he advertised his revolution's aims as a purge of governmental and social corruption and a restoration of justice and democracy. He has carried out the purge, effectively cutting off official corruption and cutting...
Red Desires. It may be that Kassem withdrew from the Baghdad Pact only to quiet Nasser. But the more worrisome likelihood is that Kassem is responding to another pressure on him. The Reds, in the guise of helping him in his consolidation of power, have made four demands on him...
It followed that the Fund ought to be promoting a "Tactical Manual for Beleaguered Professors," which outlined whatever was known about preserving your job while under fire, or perhaps that Robert Hutchins ought to organize an employment agency for purge victims and send defense funds to those in danger.
Fidel Castro's "purification" of Cuba rolled on, harsh, moralistic, fervid. Purified was the vast gambling establishment, purified was government graft. Purification also drove the bearded conquerors to set aside more and more of the constitution in order to purge the losers by firing squad. Castro's men...
Ever since Stalin's death and Nikita Khrushchev's sensational revelations of the tyrant's betrayals of "Socialist legality." Soviet citizens have been told that they will get formal safeguards under the law. All leading Soviet jurists now brand as "erroneous" the specious justifications by which the...