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...police-state terror during the invasion crisis. Under Dictator Batista, the chivato, or informer, was the object of universal hatred; Castro, in the fashion of Communist and fascist dictators, has turned the government stool pigeon into a national industry. Every block has one. In the great invasion roundup of 250,000 Cubans, the informer was apt to be the untipped janitor, the office wasp, the neighborhood malcontent-all of whom now had their chance for revenge. In the city of Matanzas, thousands of Cubans were penned up in the baseball stadium, and when they sent up a chant of protest...
...also hopeful talk that the underground in Cuba, realizing that the invasion was foredoomed, had buttoned up and managed to weather the storm. Manolo Ray, leader of the M.R.P. underground and a council member, admitted heavy losses among his people. But he believed that many survived the Castro roundup. "In four months," said Ray, "we will be stronger than before." Yet other leaders say that the underground, like the exile army, is wrecked...
...last big job was the elimination of Hungary's Jews. While the Nazi armies stumbled backward in defeat, Eichmann arrived in Budapest to command the roundup. He conceived another farfetched idea, on a par with the Madagascar scheme. Summoning Jewish Leader Joel Brand, Eichmann said: "I'm prepared to sell you 1,000,000 Jews: blood for money, money for blood. Whom do you want to save? Men who can beget children? Women who can bear them? Old people? Children? Sit down and tell...
...search for Jesus the man is still alive, even among the form critics themselves. A leading example of the search is the work of French Theologian Oscar Cullmann, discussed in a roundup of current European theology in the Protestant quarterly Religion in Life. Cullmann maintains that just because the Gospels are the product of the post-Easter church is no reason why it is impossible to reach back beyond the crucifixion to the historical Jesus and "distinguish between the places where the Gospel writers obviously express their own view and the places where they report the words of Jesus himself...
...fraction of Mr. Kennedy's spending projects is passed, the New Frontier is liable to turn into the Last Roundup...