Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fidel Castro laid it on thick last week for 700 delegates and observers and 73 foreign newsmen invited to Havana for this week's "Conference on Latin American Solidarity"-fancy Castroite jargon for Latin American subversion. The conference is a split-level affair. One level is a big, propaganda-splashed meeting filled with speeches and mutual, comradely abrazos, and attended by Communists, leftists and other Castro friends, including the U.S.'s Stokely Carmichael and Folk Singer Barbara Dane. On the other level, the nuts-and-bolts business of subversion is being discussed by rank-and-file guerrillas, agitators...
...actual plot of inner play is the story of a once-seduced cook who is murdered, of the indifference of her aristocratic employees, and of the romantic trials of the cook's son (a would-be priest). The thick plot involves murder, rape, abortion, white slavery, and class struggle. And yet the author-actor, by continually breaking and repeating scenes and by imposing comic relief, sub-ordinates the plot to his own creative concerns. At the end, the murderer is discovered by coincidence, and the plot is settled...
...country's Communist Party and visited Cuba in 1965-66, the guerrillas are armed with automatic weapons, grenades and modern communication equipment. Their field of operation - a 1,300-sq.-mi. area that straddles important oil lands between Santa Cruz and Camiri-is steep and covered with thick, thorny vegetation and huge plants with leaves so sharp that they can slice through clothes and skin. The guerrillas first surfaced in March, when they ambushed and killed seven men on an army patrol. Since then, they have been striking once every two or three weeks. By last week they...
Died. Lieut. General Lewis H. Brereton, 76, pathfinder in military aviation, who with Billy Mitchell in the 1920s was in the thick of the fight to prove that aircraft could make junk out of Navy warships, in 1942 organized the India-based bomber force that struck the first offensive blows in the Far East (against Japanese forces in the Burma area), later commanded the First Allied Airborne Army in its 1944 glider-and-parachute invasion of The Netherlands; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...belongs to the Viet Cong. Under cover of darkness, they infiltrate men down the mountain trails from Laos and North Viet Nam, move supplies, farm their paddyfields, build their bunkers, position their troops and launch many of their attacks. During the day, they generally disappear, sleeping and hiding beneath thick jungle canopies, taking refuge in hillside caves or melting back into the "peaceful" civilian population. The U.S. has long tried to interdict the Communists' nighttime movements by regularly shelling and bombing trails and camps where their presence was suspected. Now it has launched a new operation that is more...