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...Minh upgraded his years-long guerrilla bites at Laos (pop. 2,000,000) into an artillerysupported invasion (see FOREIGN NEWS) so threatening that Laos appealed to the United Nations for help. The U.S., in a stern statement, flatly charged "the Communist bloc" with intent to "foment and direct a rebellion within Laos," noted that the outbreak in Laos had followed conferences in Moscow and Peking, promised to support any "necessary" free world action...
Dublin-born Roger Casement, knighted in 1911 for services to His Majesty's consular service, had been caught after being put ashore on a wild stretch of the Irish coast by a German U-boat on Good Friday, 1916, when an Irish rebellion was in the making. What seemed to the British government a clear case of treason was to many an Irishman patriotism...
Next day calm returned, and the delegates quietly discussed a straight-shooting definition of intervention, introduced earlier by Colombia's Turbay: supplying weapons to start a civil war, allowing the export or import of such weapons, recruiting and training revolutionaries, permitting radio or TV broadcasts that encourage rebellion in another state...
...tool of Fidel Castro's battlefield victory last week was a crafty, U.S.-born double agent who worked so smoothly that he lured Castro's enemies into the open at home and conned a Dominican invasion plane into a trap in central Cuba, nipping the first major rebellion against the seven-month-old regime...
...century's major political miracles that Poland today is "a one-time satellite whirling half out of its orbit," in daily danger of suppression but also in daily defiance of Moscow. The origin of the miracle is familiar. Ever since Hungary rebelled and Poland came close to open rebellion in 1956, Moscow has known that it could restore total domination over Poland only at the price of bloodshed. At the same time, the Poles have known that, if they sought total freedom, Moscow would not hesitate to pay the price. This potentially lethal balance is the basis of Poland...