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...Rafael Ramírez said that when he completed his biochemistry course, he planned "to devote myself to the service of the revolution, wherever it might send me." The students were all talking about Africa, explained Elio Jiménez, a dark-skinned economist. "Because of the blood of our African ancestors, we cannot sit by idly and watch counterrevolutionary bandits snatch victory away from Comrade Agostinho Neto in Angola...
...shouting match with Cuba over Havana's involvement in the Shaba affair. Two weeks ago, the President accused Cuba of responsibility for training and arming the Katangese rebels based in Angola, although not of participating in the invasion. At the United Nations last week, Cuban Vice President Carlos Rafael Rodriguez called the charge "absolutely false" and said it was "based on impudently repeated lies." Said Rodriguez flatly: "I can reaffirm that Cuba has not participated directly or indirectly in the events in Shaba ... Not only were there no Cubans present in that action but, furthermore, Cuba did not supply...
With the plane question settled, the Administration is now faced with the increasingly difficult task of getting the Middle East peace talks going again. Even before the Senate vote, Israeli Chief of Staff Lieut. General Rafael Eitan insisted that the country's defense required permanent occupation of the West Bank and Golan Heights. Said he: "The basic intention of the Arabs has not changed. They want to obliterate us." After the vote, Begin's ever firm attitude hardened still more...
...early 1970s, U.S. campuses were boiling with protest against the Viet Nam War. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched on Washington. The Weatherman organization and other extremist groups set off bombs in Madison, Wis., San Rafael, Calif., and New York City, causing the deaths of at least four people. It was a time of sad and sorry crisis for the country, and the FBI was under intense pressure from both the Nixon White House and the public to stop the violence. As is now known, the bureau used illegal wiretaps, burglaries and mail thefts in searching for evidence against...
...successful. The CIA-backed overthrow of Iran's Premier Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 and of Guatemala's President Jacobo Arbenz the following year headed off threats of Communist takeovers and stabilized conditions to the benefit of the Western world. Other operations were more dubious. In the Dominican Republic, Dictator Rafael Trujillo was assassinated in 1961 by rebels supplied with guns by CIA agents. The ensuing chaos forced President Johnson to send in the Marines four years later. Notes New York University Law Professor Thomas Franck: "By using dirty tricks that backfired, we set ourselves up as the universal scapegoat...