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...safety in the embassy, Mallin was able to put together the story of Castro's 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...
...Roman Catholic priest, well known both for his courage (he was captured with the paratroopers) and for his bitter opposition to Castro, appeared as a blubbering stool pigeon. "I am completely sorry for what has happened, and I ask the Cuban people to accept my sorrow," he said. "The Americans forced me to do it." Said an invasion survivor, watching the performance on TV in Miami: "I know that man like a brother. He might have been drugged...
Cold Storage. Tito dropped off tokens of his esteem at every stop. Nkrumah got a movie projector and reels of film about Yugoslavia, gave his bemedaled guest a symbolic golden stool in return. More substantial largesse included a promise to help build a naval base for Ghana, plus a $5,000,000 credit for Nkrumah's industrial-expansion program. In little Togo, Tito laid the foundation stone for a hydroelectric plant on which his own Yugoslav engineers had done some work. Even in Monrovia, where Liberia's President William Tubman runs a staunchly pro-Western and capitalist little...
...Minded Gigolo" (Chance Wayne in Sweet Bird of Youth), and "The Martyr as Put-Upon Professor" (Charles Van Doren, self-proclaimed victim of the TV quiz riggings). The ultimate in 20th century "compassion" is to declare God irresponsible. In a Jules Feiffer cartoon a kindly chap standing on a stool concludes his monologue with God thus: "Listen up there-if you ever start a war, I'll understand. It's an attention-getting device. It's not your fault you're emotionally immature...
...very different in shape and size and function ... I feel that the most important accomplishment of these first years may well have been that the council has stayed together-that the glue has had a chance to set. At the same time it is true-both with the foot stool and with the National Council-that there comes a time when the clamps must be taken off and we must have the courage to put the instrument to the full use for which it was fashioned...