Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Womack said that Guevara was a good tactician of guerilla warfare but he was not a very successful revolutionary. He explained that "They won in Cuba not the way he said they did, but because the Cuban middle class was the most corrupt ever, and just folded...
...September 1962, Professor H. Stuart drew the whole of Tocsin into his independent campaign for the U.S. Senate. He received only two per cent of the vote. This set-back combined with the test-ban treaty and the Cuban missile crisis to finish the effectiveness of Tocsin. Finally, protest against the Bomb ended at Harvard...
This lack of passion keeps you clean. Student politics is farcical. It is left to former Midwestern student council presidents. There are causes and causes. Issues come and go. You cluck your tongue or nod your head. Eisenhower was dull and stupid; Kennedy had style, you know; the Cuban invasion was bad; the Dominican Republic bit was ridiculous; join the Peace Corps; the Poverty Program should at least be given a chance. And so on and on. Many of us don't sign petitions because, well, what of our political careers...
...cluk your tongue or nod your head. Eisenhower was dull and stupid; Kennedy had style,you known; the Cuban invasion was bad; the Dominican Republic bit was ridiculous; join the Peace Corps; the Poverty Program should at least be given a chance. Many of us don't sign petitions because, well, what of our political careers...
...flaw in Che's philosophy of revolution is revealed in his book Guerrilla Warfare, which sets down a step-by-step plan for organizing peasants for a Cuban-style revolution. What Che ignored was the fact that Castro did not really create a peasant revolution in Cuba. Though the peasants supported and sustained his forces during the early fighting in the Sierra Maestra, the real turning point came when Cuba's urban middle class, which actually made up the bulk of Castro's army, suddenly began deserting Dictator Fulgencio Batista and sent the jittery strongman fleeing into...