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...Spanish. A year after Castro came to power, he gave the Red Chinese their first (and so far only) embassy in Latin America. Under Ambassador Wang Yu-ping, 54, a veteran Communist who emerged from the Chinese civil war with the rank of general, the embassy has become a springboard for Chinese subversion in Latin America. Last year no fewer than 37 Chinese "cultural" and "technical" delegations visited Latin America. In return, 90 different groups of Latin Americans visited China in 1963, often on all-expense-paid tours. Most were students and intellectuals, but not all were Communists...
...that fought off the bloody rebel invasion of Bukavu and gave the Congolese army something it could be proud of for a change. Mulamba, a tough disciplinarian who got his training as an adjutant in the Belgian Congo Force Publique, last week tried to turn his victory into a springboard for reform...
Crimson's Bruce Fowler will compete in the 200-yard breaststroke today and the 100-yard Saturday. Mahoney will get a crack at the three-metre springboard then...
Fowler's breaststroke events are scheduled for Friday and Saturday. Mahoney will compete in the one-metre springboard diving today and the three-metre spring-board on Saturday...
Bucky is indebted to S.I.U. for providing him with both a home base and a springboard, and Fuller's fame has helped repay the debt, Sixteen years ago, there were only 3,013 students on the Carbondale campus: today there are no fewer than 18,201 students and a faculty of 1,154. And the university has just been awarded a $10 million, three-year space project, which Bucky will head...