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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soviet Switch. The first public inkling of Castro's split with Peking came on the eve of last month's Tri-Conti-nental Solidarity Conference in Havana, where 612 assorted "revolutionists" gathered for twelve days to map plans for upheaval in Africa, Asia and Latin America. On the surface, it seemed that Red China, with its "wars of national liberation," would command the most support among the hotheaded delegates. Russia, which has been soft-pedaling violent revolution and has openly favored the via pacifica in Latin America, seemed a poor second...
Third World Force. The subject of rice probably never came up before the well-fed delegates at the nine-day Tri-Continental Conference, which drew 505 delegates from 85 countries to Havana's Hotel Libre. They had enough ideology to chew on, what with Peking's delegates bickering with the Russians and Moscow's men biting right back. Castro himself was all unity...
...many a tinhorn ruler had done before him, Fidel apparently hopes to form a third world force of small, revolutionary countries, and Havana Radio hinted that it should be represented by a new tri-continental organization with headquarters in Havana. To Cubans, that sounded like circus time forever...
...piddlers from the real students, Hershey believes that it may be necessary to return to the system of national examinations and class ranking used during the Korean war. But he would rather see the colleges "clean their own stables." Although he is a trustee of his alma mater, Tri-State College, Hershey's philosophy of education was influenced more strongly by his early life on an Indiana farm and his long career in the army, than his days in the classroom...
Died. Ellen Church Marshall, 60, first U.S. airline stewardess, on an 18-passenger, United Air Lines tri-motor; of head injuries received in a fall from a horse; in Terre Haute...