The Unsuspected Revolution:
Nicholson, Joe
management. One wonders how any late, or too little enforced." ing of the attention of American organization could possibly be a marvel These crippling defects are...
...Kelly's concluding more to do than to go on in her own Kelly's deficient sense of history is not hopeful quotation from Newman in 1852 proper duties in confidence and limited to gaffes like including the is not notably consistent with most of the peace, to stand still, and to see the French Abbot Gueranger, who died in material preceding it...
...elections under the terms of Cuba's Con- him when he had proven that point and This book's great value (augmented by stitution of 1940, and so he went on should have rectified several other minor the index and appended documents) lies working assiduously to build Fidel's weaknesses-occasional repetition, a in the inside glimpse it gives of the ways image as toe heroic guerrillero-an loss of narrative pace due to backtracking in which the Cuban revolutionaries image which grew inside Cuba, where at the start of chapters and the burial of maneuvered-more than fought-their Batista kept a news blackout on Castro's various and sundry fascinating facts and way into power...
...into a government propaganda organ...
...A the rules of law governing medical negliby Castro's Marxist aides that he had recent study by a U.C.L.A...
...Did he never see the droves of on seeing Castro as a democratic re- Llerena writes clearly, but he belabors women who could subsistt only as prostiformer when public evidence-not to his thesis (that he was duped) as though tutes...
...uncertain, and what is commonly a agement, which announced in 1960 that Characteristically Kelly takes no cogni- great surprise when it is witnessed, the Catholic church was "one of the two zance of positive developments in these is the particular mode in the event most efficient management enterprises in areas...
...He decision-making, by decisions made too July Movement...
...Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, then a top officer of the Cuban Communist Party and now probably the third most powerful Insuring trouble Cuban behind the Castro brothers...
...1875, in a list...
...leaders on the basis of cronyism (espe- counts of current developments in reli- Christianity has been too often in cially in the pre-conciliar days whose gious education (though not his chapter what seemed deadly peril that we passage Kelly laments...
...There can be few crisis presents a unique opportunity for times our enemy is turned into a people now alive in a better position than spiritual growth...
...rendered valueless by his blindness to the tion of the time Fidel-not yet a one-man Llerena quotes from Castro's hand- lot of the majority of poor Cubans, who ruler-got carried away during an interwritten letters in which Fidel reasserted previously suffered and now enjoy view and then was forced by his rehis democratic intentions at the same superb health care, new housing, modern volutionary comrades to back off from a time he was negotiating secretly with schools, a full-employment economy, peace offer he made to Batista...
...multinational corporations and after Castro viciously assailed Llere- and equal opportunity regardless of race and the general degradation of the poor na's character during one of his intermin- or sex (though not regardless of sexual majority throughout Latin America is all able TV monologues, Llerena and his orientation-gay Cubans still suffer...
...The hierarchy, Kelly writes, professor when he was asked by Castro, virtues of democratic capitalism that was "frequently loses from too much whom he had known from leftist political naive at the time of the Cuban Revolution dialogue accompanied by too little circles in Havana, to work for the 26 of and that is positively quaint today...
...which selects its book is squarely on target...
...As evidence for his whose fatuousness and (in not a few hand, what is uncertain, and in audacious claim Kelly cites the notorious cases) lack of basic Christianity or even these great contests commonly is study of the American Institute of Man- common sense he ruthlessly exposes...
...Castro then named Tridentine church, which required meas- Joe Nicholson Llerena head of the movement's foreign ures (the' anathema being the most obvi- supporters and sent him to New York to ous example) excluded by John XXIII in OPENED this book expecting a rather run the guerrillas' public relations camadvance-and -rightly-for Vatican II...
...exile in Mexico...
...I and CBS correspondents, whom Llerena of the Castro regime is, to my mind, particularly enjoyed Llerena's descriphelped slip into rebel territory...
...family reluctantly returned to exile in the Did Llerena, a native Cuban, never see Probably due to his narrowminded, United States, where they continue to the bohio huts in which the rural poor middle-class perspective, Llerena went live...
...He is unembancass- From Castroism to Communism ed to write that the doctrinal confusion following Vatican II "might not have TIE UNSUSPECTED REVOLUTION suaded, Llerena carried out various occurred had the Council Fathers in 1965 THE BIRTH AND RISE OF CASTROISM undercover assignments until Batista's exercised the foresight of their predeces- police identified him as a subversive, sors in 1565...
...SomeGeneral Motors...
...times he falls to pieces of himself...
...and was then the only left-of-center polit- Anchor Press, $10, 349 pp...
...He never of knowingly helping a Communist into employment after the sugar-cane zafra doubted Castro's promise to hold free power...
...The rather hapless Cuban Communist Party THE MALPRACTITIORERS well-documented dissections of the sohad achieved a modicum of influence called "medical malpractice crisis" that through an informal alliance with Batista John Gunther made headlines a few years ago...
...They are the Newman, upon receiving formal notifvast majority of its officials by seniority more regrettable because at its best the cation, in Rome, of his selection as Carrather than by merit...
...According to newspaper accounts and ical group still supporting him...
...The inside picture of revolt, largely due to news reports from anecdotes in footnotes at the back of the Fidel wheeling and dealing with his folthe U.S., particularly the dramatic inter- book...
...the guise of a selfless patriot devoted to innocently-denied allegations that CasIt is difficult to discover Kelly's own overthrowing dictatorship and restoring tro had Communist leanings...
...but thatt this opportunity friend...
...researcher gence were among the causes supposedly resigned because of a lack of patriotism...
...During numerous TV appearances The same lack of any historical sense is and was delighted to discover instead a and press conferences, and at meetings evident in Kelly's all too obvious nostal- fascinating-and occasionally spine- with U.S...
...and which has on universities), and in women's reli- should fear for it any new trial no system of accountability worth the gious orders, are devastating for those now...
...of mid-twentieth century Catholic intellectuals, most of them still alive...
...Articulate and in m au out the book...
...There is worse...
...someSpellman-who on the evidence of his of a truly new type...
...The other was for pointing out that the church's present saves its elect inheritance...
...He deserves full credit, however, by which Providence rescues and the Western World...
...Marxist fiction...
...Kelly's ac- dinal in 1879...
...Rod- institutional advertising by the insurance riguez, whose previous contacts had PAW AND PROFIT: industry, dramatic rises in the cost of been with Raul, 'Che and several other TIE POLITICS OF MALPRACTICE liability insurance for physicians were committed Marxists in the rebel high Silvia Law and Steven Polan threatening to drive already soaring medcommand, had traveled to the Sierra Harper & Row, $12.95, 305 pp...
...For Maestra to trade his party's support for 1975, estimates of the burden the Fidel's commitment to set up a Marxist Joseph A. Page "crisis" had imposed upon the public regime...
...should ponder The Malpractitioners or Vigorous lobbying efforts convinced When no independent papers remained, Pain and Profit, a tandem of readable, many state legislatures to enact statutes 6 July 1979: 411...
...dry and academic anti-Castro diatribe, paign...
...has unearthed the fact that the County conspiring to produce what were expanThere, he worked as a columnist for a achieved a significant decrease in its sively termed "boxcar verdicts...
...In the United States is beneficial and then is removed...
...A good editor could have told ended...
...program for getting American Catholi- democracy, manipulated his non- In Llerena, Castro had picked an ideal cism back on track-the more so as his Communist followers (including the au- spokesman to protect himself from the concluding chapter appears to retract thor) to seize dictatorial power for him- Red stigma, which then could have been many of the positions advanced through- self...
...But it seems to come down Mario Llerena- according to the story respects an inquisitive and subtle obto less dialogue and more toughness all he tells-was a liberal, anti-Communist server, Llerena had a strange faith in the round...
...One succession of Havana newspapers, re- death rate while the doctors were profes- solution pushed by insurers and doctors signing from each paper as it was oc- sionally inactive...
...which Kelly's book abounds) was in fre- the picture remains clouded, but by no Commonly the church has nothing quent need of such therapy...
...sometimes he is despoiled Kelly to know that the primary purpose will assuredly be lost unless we get vig- of that special virulence of evil of this study was to reassure Cardinal orous, imaginative episcopal leadership which was so threatening...
...means without hope...
...official biography (and not merely of the There is already evidence of such sometimes he does just so much as unsupported anecdote and gossip in leadership in Rome...
...was to change the legal rules to make it cupied by Castro's soldiers and turned Anyone puzzled by this anomaly moree difficult for claimants to recover...
...lowers and with competing revolutionary views with Castro by New York Times Llerena's utterly negative assessment groups is the best I have ever read...
...On the other name at any level...
...Congressmen and Castro supgia for the good old days of Cardinal tingling-inside account of how Fidel, in porters, Llerena vehemently-and Spellman...
...Charmed and per- apparently sincerely believes the exploiCommonweal: 410 tation of U.S...
...Claims-conscious conmunist front, he resigned and then, after increases in the premiums they had to pay sumers, greedy lawyers, overly symCastro's victory several months later, he for malpractice liability insurance...
...Even more deserv- salvation of God...
...lived...
...This ignores the totally Mario Lkrena forcing him and his family to flee into different situation confronting the Cornell University Press, $12.50, 324 pp...
...ing of the attention of American organization could possibly be a marvel These crippling defects are but one tip Catholics today are some later words of of good management which promotes the of an enormous iceberg...
...Their pathetic juries and the liberalization of returned to Cuba to confront accusations strike produced one salutary surprise...
...So far is certain...
...ranged from $2 billion to $11 billion...
...Did he have no conception of the mention the inside information he here he harbors fears he still may be accused hardship caused by the widespread unrecords-indicated otherwise...
...fatal to his plans...
...The Some months later when Llerena fi- DURING THE MONTH of January, 1976, finger of blame pointed at the large nally realized he had been duped into doctors in Los Angeles County with- awards patients were said to be winning heading and giving credibility to a Com- held medical services to protest sharp against doctors...
...ical costs to prohibitive heights...
Vol. 106 • July 1979 • No. 13
