Word: rusia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Libertad." By 5 p.m. on the appointed afternoon, Boza's church and the narrow, cobbled streets surrounding it were packed with 4,000 people. A few began to call out "Cuba Si, Rusia No"-and "Libertad." Before long, the chants swelled into a continuing roar. A group of youths climbed the church belfry and rang the bells, but they could barely be heard. The demonstration went on for three hours, mounting in intensity as the crowd chanted "Down with Castro!" One Havana police captain wormed his way into the church, confronted Boza, then startled everyone by ripping...
...Garcia Bustillos, 35. "The oligarchic classes hate us, and we are proud of it. Our strength is with the working class and with the youth.'' In front of him, a student claque chanted, "Less rich, less poor, less rich, less poor." and from outside came shouts of "Rusia no! Yanquis no! Latinoamérica...
...last week was the stage for an increasingly familiar scene. In a handful of cities, mobs dragged the U.S. flag through the streets, stoned U.S.-Ecuadorian "friendship centers," set afire a U.S. consul's car. In Quito, the American embassy was stoned, and 20,000 demonstrators, chanting "Cuba, Rusia y E-cua-dor," marched to a rabble-rousing pep rally led by President José Maria Velasco Ibarra and his pro-Communist Interior Minister Manuel...
...justice is not done to Ecuador, there will be no peace," cried Velasco. "If necessary, we will become allies of Russia," shouted Araújo, and the mob roared back: "Yanqui, no; Rusia...
...declared herself an atheist. On the eve of her execution a nun convinced her she should confess and partake of the Holy Sacrament. Yet later, as she stood before the firing squad, that same woman raised her clenched fist to the sky and cried out: 'Viva Rusia...