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Died. Gerhart Eisler, 71, Communist agent and propagandist, who in 1949 escaped from U.S. authorities and set up shop in East Germany; of a heart attack; in the Republic of Armenia, USSR Emigrating to the U.S. from France during World War II, Eisler became the classic agent, a bespectacled little man living quietly in Queens, N.Y., and even serving as a World War II civil defense warden. Then, in 1946,1nformer Louis Budenz fingered him as one of Moscow's top agents-organizer of Red undergrounds in Spain, France, Switzerland and now the U.S., where he bossed the wartime...
Cuba is really the only country to boast a campaign so successful. The rapidity of its success is particularly remarkable. (The other outstanding example of progress is the USSR, where advance was slower, but the problem was also of a very different magnitude.) The Cuban campaign began in January, 1961, with an appeal to secondary students to "help in the battle." Thirty-four thousand professional teachers trained and directed the student volunteers. Castro mobilized 268,420 of them for what UNESCO estimated was a fantastic student-teacher ratio of three...
Nine delegations reportedly threatened a walk-out over the Venezuelan issue, but when the door was opened for them, they remembered that they were attending a solidarity conference, and stayed put. The resolution passed. So did the resolution condemning the USSR. But "la unica camina" was changed to read: "The armed struggle is the principal road to liberation of Latin America. All other forms of the struggle must be subordinate...
...greatest scorn is reserved for United States foreign policy. He maintains that the period of cruelty in Russia is over, and that since World War II the policies of the USSR have been better directed toward peace than those...
...United States should therefore show clearly at the outset that its ICBM defense will be limited in purpose to preventing catastrophic aggression by the "Nth nation." It should substantiate its position by seeking further disarmament agreements with the USSR. The war in Vietnam will probably preclude such agreements at the present, but a resolution of that conflict should set the stage for successful discussions. The limited Nike-X system will contribute substantially to our military position, so long as the risk of a new and more lethal US-Soviet arms race is recognized and avoided...