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...special enforcers, Castro used his "Committees for the Defense of the Revolution," numbering more than 2,000,000 members. Railing against "parasites, speculators, lumpen and laggards," C.D.R. members closed down private shops and decided which should be reopened under government ownership. To whip up national interest, the Ministry of Commerce issued daily bulletins on the number of businesses "intervened," and newspapers and radio stations played up the wonders found in the possession of Cuba's last capitalists. In Matanzas province, Mechanic Domingo Riosa had the misfortune, for example, to be caught with light bulbs, Champion spark plugs and pistons...
...upon to save the country." In September 1862, Lee invaded the North for the first time, and-with sensational luck-McClellan's men came upon a copy of his orders, detailing the exact positions of the divided rebel army. "Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee," said McClellan, "I will be willing to go home." Though he might have defeated Lee once and for all at Antietam, the "young Napoleon" hovered near defeat himself, barely managing to check the invasion...
...vote getter. At the Palladium last week he declared his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat held by fellow Republican Thomas Kuchel, and as the darling of California's hard-lining conservatives, Rafferty just might give Tom Kuchel a tough fight for the nomination. Kuchel, the Senate minority whip, has been an unabashed liberal Republican in the Senate since he was appointed to his seat in 1952 by then Governor Earl Warren...
Even when a tape recording of the speech proved that Brandt had not insulted De Gaulle, De Gaulle refused to listen, using the episode to embarrass the Germans and crack a whip over their heads. To show the Germans what he thought of them, he summarily canceled luncheon invitations to two visiting Bonn Cabinet ministers, treated President Lübke with frosty politeness and left hanging the threat of a formal French protest. It was not until later in the week, after he had extracted what he could from the situation, that De Gaulle allowed his information minister to announce...
...capture. Wholly new and hidden villages have sprung up near occupied towns. At roadblocks around the country, highschool girls in "Long Live Biafra" T-shirts help militiamen check passing cars. Light-Heavyweight Boxing Champion Dick Tiger, an Ibo, has toured the interior villages, advising militia officers on how to whip their inexperienced recruits into fighting trim...