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...across the way from Barbara Button's $1.5 million place are causing talk. Some say that the place is a nest of Communists, some that it is a training center for an illegal Roman Catholic underground. The Red newspaper, Politica, charged that it was a "penetración Yanqui." And some of the inmates of Villa Chula Vista this week are not sure themselves what they have got into, or what manner of wild man is this dark, cadaverous Ivan Illich, who yells at them and lectures them, prays and plays with them, insults them and drinks with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Boot Camp for Urbanites | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...Castro has worked tirelessly to mold his nation's youth into loyal-and militant-Communist cadres. Reading primers assure that the first name youngsters learn to spell is Fidel or Raúl, that their first animal stories are set on collective farms, that their first bogeymen are Yanqui imperialists. With piping voices, Cuba's fourth-graders sing a jingle taught by their energetic teachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: And Now the Children? | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

Attending a conference of Communist women in Brazil, she spent most of her time in anti-Yanqui harangues over TV and radio, made splashy headlines during her stay in Rio de Janeiro. She toured to Sao Paulo, swung north to Recife, where her presence set off a student riot that ended only when Brazilian President Janio Quadros sent in troops and tanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: Che's Red Mother | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...Anti-Yanqui Mishmash. Still, the Tractors for Freedom committee moved ahead. It sent Castro a tentative schedule for the exchange between men and machines, set a deadline for reply. Castro took his time, then, just a few hours before the deadline expired, cabled the committee. His message was a predictable mishmash of anti-Yanqui invective. He accused the committee of stalling-which must have seemed silly even to him. He charged the U.S. with aggression. He even offered to forgo his desire for tractors if the U.S. would only give up such prisoners as Pedro Albizu Campos, a mentally muddled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: The Dilemma | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

...justice is not done to Ecuador, there will be no peace," cried Velasco. "If necessary, we will become allies of Russia," shouted Araújo, and the mob roared back: "Yanqui, no; Rusia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR: Peril of Peacemaking | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

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