Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press, like all institutions under Castro, is now only an unprotesting spoke in the grinding wheel of the regime. So far, seven newspapers have been shut down or expropriated; the rest are under government yoke. For uncensored news a growing number of Cubans this week were listening to an underground voice from the distance: a Cuban press-in-exile composed of three formerly leading Havana dailies, now written in Miami by refugee newsmen and smuggled back into Cuba through ingenious clandestine channels...
...manifesto's resounding effect is largely attributable to the great popular interest in the "Jeanson trial." Professor Francis Jeanson was the leader of an underground network composed largely of intellectuals, Moslem Algerians, and former resistance fighters, supporting the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). Along with twenty other Frenchmen and five Algerians, Jeanson was tried for treason this fall, in the same military tribunal where Capt. Dreyfus was sentenced as a traitor in 1894. The defense claimed, "When a people resists oppression, it is entitled to every respect... and all the help one can give it." Jeanson, however, was sentenced...
Morro Flight. The dozen underground civic resistance groups of a few months ago are only now beginning to shake down into two major movements: the Democratic Revolutionary Front, headed by oldtime Autentico Politico Manuel ("Tony") Varona, and the younger, more aggressive People's Revolutionary Movement (MRP) of Manolo Ray, 34, Castro's former Public Works Minister. The Front operates from Miami. But the MRP is headquartered in Havana, where Ray, who went underground Aug. 23, is setting up an organization. A few weeks ago he put his engineer's brain to planning a jailbreak from Havana...
...trade unions, e.g., the bus drivers, have tried to resist the government's emasculation of the unions. Onetime Castro Labor Boss David Salvador, ousted for Communist Jesus Soto, has gone underground, but most unions submit quietly, even beat the drums for "voluntary pay reductions" to help the dictatorship...
Thriller (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).*Latest in the new crime series, hosted by Boris Karloff. This edition, starring Everett Sloane, Frank Silvera and Jay C. Flippen, is about an underground lawyer and his difficult relations with a narcotics syndicate boss...