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There is nothing in Resistance, Rebellion, and Death of the metaphysical Camus; all the subjects are socio-political. In this Camus is a challenge, not because we necessarily are in concord his views or values, but because consistently and without rest man lived the views, and lived values...
Back to the Bay. But for all the messages about fish rising and rainbows flashing, the expected mass uprising failed to take place, and the tide of rebellion ran out. The airstrip at Jagüey Grande was seized, but when the first rebel B-26 came in to land, it hit unexpected ridges of sand that had drifted across the runway, and crashed. Paratroopers, dropped inland, were wiped out-few prisoners were taken. The invaders from the beach never quite reached Jagüey Grande. Obviously forewarned of the general area where the landing would take place ("Someone committed...
...characteristic response to the dictator's dislike was to try to mediate between Batista and his opposition. But his attempts to draw feuding Cuban factions together ended abruptly in 1958, when Batista suspended all civil rights to cope with the rebellion of Fidel Castro. An organization of Miró's friends, largely conservative businessmen and professional men, denounced the Batista regime for "supporting itself by force." The dictator sent some henchmen to arrest Miró. As they were searching his office, he was making his escape to the Argentine embassy, disguised as a priest...
They think that the F.L.N. is already hopelessly compromised with the Communists. Half of the rebellion's $80 million annual budget comes from Arab countries, but the other half comes from Communist China. F.L.N. leaders, from provisional "Premier" Ferhat Abbas on down, have been toasted in Peking, and hundreds of wounded rebels are currently recuperating in Czech and Soviet hospitals. Even the F.L.N. labor movement, though a member of the anti-Communist International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, will have sent 1,000 organizers behind the Iron Curtain for training by 1962. (The F.L.N. points out, justly, that...
...advance information about the Sinai campaign and, presumably, the coordinated Franco-British attack on Suez, which he allegedly passed on to the Soviet Union. The Russians, clearly, did not inform the Egyptians. They seem to have used their foreknowledge to behave with brutal swiftness in crushing the Hungarian rebellion, confident that the Suez attack would be certain to divert world public opinion...