Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Astonishing Question. The plot began to take shape in 1968, when one Earl J. Williamson was assigned to the American embassy in San José as a political officer. Williamson, 55, also served as CIA station chief. While he was attached to the U.S. embassy in Havana during the Batista era, he had married the vivacious niece of a wealthy Cuban sugar baron. The Williamsons moved in wealthy San José circles, where Pepe Figueres was considered a "Communist" by some because of his social reforms. Williamson and his wife made no effort to hide their dislike for the President...
With that sort of record, Pepe Figueres seems a most unlikely target for a Guatemala-style plot engineered by CIA agents and aimed at his overthrow. Yet that is precisely what Costa Rican officials claim has happened in the tiny (pop. 1,700,000) Central American republic. They do not accuse Washington of sponsoring the scheme, but they make no secret of their suspicions about some officials who happened to be working...
Last October the Costa Rican government received intelligence reports that Williamson was actively abetting a right-wing antigovernment plot. The State Department was asked to quietly arrange his transfer. Nothing was done...
...DRAMATIC energy of The Homecoming comes from sheer hatred the characters feel for each other, tied loosely together by a sketchy plot. The play demands much of the actors to keep it alive, to perpetuate the tension necessary to make it survive. The Harvard Dramatic Club's production starts at a low key, failing to generate enough tension for the first ten minutes or so, but gradually works its way up to a brilliant intensity. Michael Smith as Max comes on weak, as if feeling out the terrain, but grows into his part after a while, gradually beginning to talk...
...digress. The Hasty Pudding Club, I think, is a group of clean-cut young men who get drunk on Saturday nights and gleefully plot the molestation of young girls at Garland Junior College. Now, as for what they want from us-well, that's the tough part...