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...Raúl claimed that Escalante had tried to arrange a trip to Moscow with "Russian Journalist" Vadim Lestov-actually, an NKVD agent-"to put forth his opinions" on how the Kremlin could whip Castro into line. In a secret report to Lestov, which ended up in Raúl's hands, Escalante criticized the government and warned that Fidel was planning to expand trade ties with France, thereby lessening Russian leverage...
Secret Report. The charges grew out of a long-winded report delivered before the Central Committee by Raúl Castro, Fidel's brother and the chief of Cuba's armed forces and internal security. Named as the conspiracy's ringleader was Anibal Escalante, 59, a onetime party chieftain who fell from favor in 1962 for his pro-Soviet views but was later allowed to return to Cuba after a two-year exile in Prague. This time, said Raúl, Escalante had organized an anti-Castro movement that extended into several key government ministries, the University...
...where to bristle, and the result is an unevenness in both the progress and the retrogression. Because of censorship, Czechs never get to see some of the best movies turned out by their talented directors; among the films that have not yet been screened in Czechoslovakia are Věra Chytilova's audacious Daisies (TIME, June 23) and Antonin Masa's Hotel for Foreigners. Few Czechs have been permitted out of the country to see their highly touted pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal...
Controlled Trouble. Uri Ra'anan, an Israeli Kremlinologist who is professor of world politics at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, observes that "ironically, the Soviets were not interested in whether these countries actually gained their aspirations. Russia was interested in giving arms, but not in their being used. The Russians found, as always, that it is easier to get in than to stay...
...dazzling color combinations. In subject, unfortunately, it is little more than another of Dada's precocious offspring. The leaden symbolism of the girls snipping pickles, sausages and bananas is only one example of a script that has all the consistency of an amateur happening. Director Věra Chytilová views her film as social commentary: "A necrologue about a negative way of life." The Daisies' nose-thumbing dedication-"To all those whose indignation is limited to a smashed-up salad"-suggests that its real theme is absurdity...