TELLS CUBAN READERS ABOUT HUGO BLANCO
To the growing worldwide campaign of solidarity with Hugo Blanco has been added the voice of Bohemia, the weekly magazine published in Havana. Bohemia is well known in Latin America for its Cuban and world news, special features, documents and a variety of historical, cultural, medical, scientific and other material.
Each of three recent issues of Bohemia which have just been received in
New York carries information about Hugo
Blanco. The April 14 number, which is
dedicated to the anniversary of the Playa
Gir6én victory, reprints in full an arti-
cle describing the case of the Peruvian
peasant leader.
The reprint is from issue No. 81
of the journal Gente, published in Lima,
Peru. The account of Blanco's trial at
Tacna, of the support for him demonstra-~
ted by the people, and of the background
of the case are all based on an interview with Doctora Laura Caller, one of the de-~ fense lawyers. [An English translation of the Gente article is to be found in World Outlook, October 21, 1966.]
Bohemia introduced this with several paragraphs describing the worldwide support for the defendants. For example, "To the House of Pizarro in Lima from all over the world come protests from hundreds of labor, student, and intellectual organizations; the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, various English Members of Parliament, the 62 Argentine trade-union organizations of Peronist persuasion, the League of Irish Workers, and the Pan African Congress of South Africa have sent telegrams; on the streets of Paris are to be seen many posters telling about the case and Committees for the Defense of Hugo Blanco are being formed everywhere."
Bohemia concluded the reprint from Gente with the comment that the Blanco trial, contrary to the expectations of
his persecutors, has become a demonstra-
tion of the readiness of the Peruvian peo-
ple to support "the necessary road of in-
surrection."
The April 21 Bohemia (which also
contains Che Guevara's message on Viet-
nam and world revolution) carries a photo
of one of the Parisian posters on the
Blanco case, with an explanatory caption.
The April 28 Bohemia (which in-
cludes Fidel Castro's speech praising the
April 15 Spring Mobilization in the U.S.)
reprints two messages by Hugo Blanco.
One is a short letter published in
the bulletin of the Paris-based Committee
of Solidarity with the Victims of Repres-
sion in Peru.
The other is an open letter to the
workers and peasants of Peru, explaining
the gist of his case and proclaiming his
willingness to die for the sake of the
revolutionary cause.
THE LOS ANGELES TEST OF THE "SPIRIT OF GLASSBORO"
An incident occurred between Kosygin's two téte-d-tétes with Johnson at Glassboro, the town that gave the English language the word "booze," which received little notice outside of the city where it occurred -~ Los