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LUMUMBA. The Soviet Union supported him with money and arms in the contest to take the former Belgian Congo out of the West's orbit. While the CIA supported President Moïse Tshombe of Katanga against Lumumba, it had no part in Lumumba's arrest and murder by Katanganese soldiers. He was a casualty of African tribal politics...
Cunhal was born in the town of Se Nova, the son of an impecunious country lawyer. As a law student at Lisbon University, Cunhal received the highest grades ever recorded, even though he had to finish his studies from prison (he was jailed numerous times during that period for being a Communist). In 1935 he went to Moscow for the annual Communist International Youth Congress, where he impressed the party with his eloquent oratory. The following year he was sent to Madrid on a special mission during the first months of the Spanish Civil War. When he tried to slip...
...called for unity among all peoples of color "on the basis of what we have in common," namely, exploitation by the international capitalist system. By this time, Malcolm had long since discarded the race analysis of the Muslims, and realized that the enemy was not the white race per se, but the whites who happen to constitute the international ruling class...
...afford it, he loves the good life. A bachelor at 37, he has a fine, selective eye for women. He is also an excellent cook, and Parker does not hesitate to halt the narrative to describe in detail Spenser's culinary procedures. If the se ries goes on long enough, Houghton Mifflin will doubtless publish Spenser's Clues to Cooking...
...hundred thousand strong, to sing the songs of Mikis Theodorakis. Beaming and exuberant as he led the singing, the once exiled composer said, "The people have won. We have proved once more that we are stronger. They have tanks. We have ide als and songs." There were calls for se vere punishment of the arrested leaders of the junta, and countless banners proclaiming CIA AND NATO-BETRAYERS...