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...seen any more. They have almost nothing to sell and very little to say. The one place where their influence was still strong until recently was in Castro's overseas operations, where, at Che Guevara's inspiration, the whole tone was a blatant call for immediate bloody revolt. Castro is still permitted to support his "wars of national liberation," but Moscow insists on knowing all about such operations and wants to be sure that they are carried on without leaving such obvious traces as the three-ton Cuban arms cache uncovered in Venezuela in 1963. That error lost...
...When revolt struck Djakarta last week, it seemed appropriate that President Sukarno was in the company of a lovely woman. He was with Morning Star, his most recent wife, a 26-year-old former Japanese bar hostess. Sukarno had left Merdeka Palace to visit her brown-walled bungalow for dinner beneath dozens of Indonesian statues. As the meal ended, word came of a military uprising in the city. Dismissing his motorcade, Sukarno summoned a helicopter and was lifted up into the night sky-and for four days, the flamboyant, hard-living leader of a nation of 104 million...
...past experience, Bazzaz' chances were not bright. As an early Moslem conqueror put it: "If you want a people to order and be obeyed, you have Egypt; if you want a people to feed and be obeyed, you have Syria; but if you waift a people who revolt against wrong and right, you have Iraq...
...President he proposed some badly needed social and economic reforms. But they never got off the ground during his inept administration, and Communists infiltrated deep into his government. After he was deposed and exiled, he became a writer-in-residence at the University of Puerto Rico; when the April revolt erupted, there he sat, making no move except to issue pronouncements that only fanned the flames. In general, he backed the rebels and denounced...
...They Want to Learn." As it happened, McGrath had been thinking for a long time about settling down at a small, undergraduate liberal arts college. He was interested, too, in the college kids of today who, he contends, are justifiably in revolt against the "facelessness and anonymity" of undergraduate life in the sprawling, ever-growing universities. "No generation has been more dedicated, more intellectually stimulated," he says. "They want to learn-and they will learn if you pay attention to them. Eisenhower College is the place for this...