Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Morro Flight. The dozen underground civic resistance groups of a few months ago are only now beginning to shake down into two major movements: the Democratic Revolutionary Front, headed by oldtime Autentico Politico Manuel ("Tony") Varona, and the younger, more aggressive People's Revolutionary Movement (MRP) of Manolo Ray, 34, Castro's former Public Works Minister. The Front operates from Miami. But the MRP is headquartered in Havana, where Ray, who went underground Aug. 23, is setting up an organization. A few weeks ago he put his engineer's brain to planning a jailbreak from Havana...
...trade unions, e.g., the bus drivers, have tried to resist the government's emasculation of the unions. Onetime Castro Labor Boss David Salvador, ousted for Communist Jesus Soto, has gone underground, but most unions submit quietly, even beat the drums for "voluntary pay reductions" to help the dictatorship...
Buildings destroyed about 1200 B.C., by "sons of Hercules"--who establishment a dynasty in Sardis about that time, according to the Greek historian, Heroplus--were included among the findings. Traces of buildings which perished in a fire around the same time were discovered 30 feet underground...
...bomb shelters are to be built, they should very clearly symbolize the threat of ultimate destruction. But when every drug store in every town carries a large stock of "do-it-yourself" bomb shelter kits, when Civil Defense authorities publicly argue about the most attractive design for an underground city, Civil Defense measures come to symbolize the prospects for ultimate security. But to accept such artificial security is to hide from the clearest and most terrifying reality in the world today. To accept emotionally the prospect of the human race huddling underground indefinitely is tacitly to abandon everything...
...want war" but persistently indicates that war is highly likely and America had better mobilize all its resources in preparation--these are the enemies of groups like SANE. The Civil Defense Commissioner who hires a team of interior decorators to plan comfortable, airy rooms for the inevitable underground New York City presents, in the long run, a far more serious threat than those men who spend their time haranguing in front of the Overseas Press Club because Nikita Khrushchev was invited to speak there...