Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West's new leaders probe for new foreign-policy approaches, there is always the danger of a misstep. Johnson, for instance, almost certainly overreacted to Fidel Castro's nuisance-value move of cutting off Guantanamo's water supply. He has got to learn that activity, or even action, is not to be equated with wisdom. And he seems to be more thin-skinned than a Texan should be over criticism of his conduct of foreign affairs. Last week, before a group of Internal Revenue agents, he made some petulant off-the-cuff remarks in defense...
Another Panama? The orders might seem overly severe. But Washington still believes Castro may be working himself up to a major, Panama-style confrontation over Guantanamo. Immediately after the Jan. 9 Canal Zone riots, Castro's radio started appealing to Cuban workers on the base to return to the "motherland." A few weeks ago, Havana's propagandists railed that "drunken U.S. Marines indiscriminately fired their machine guns at Cuban workers." Castro militiamen have resumed their rock-throwing at U.S. sentries, recently fired a burst of machine-gun fire over the heads of a Marine squad inside the fence...
Whatever Fidel Castro may have had in mind with his water war against Guantanamo, the U.S. last week moved to make the Navy base "a little more ready" for any eventuality...
...producing 1,000,000 gal. of fresh water per day; a new catchment basin to collect rain water will also be built, along with an underground reservoir holding 4,000,000 gal. in reserve. By August "Gitmo" will be self-sufficient, no longer concerned about the Cuban waterworks that Castro shut off in reprisal for the seizure of four Cuban fishing boats violating Florida waters...
...Even if Castro turns the water on again, the Navy will not use a drop. Nor will it continue to employ most of the 2,500 Cuban workers who commute daily to the base. Last week the first 500 Cubans were dismissed. Furthermore, no more U.S. dependents will be allowed at Guantanamo, once considered about the sunniest assignment a Navy man and his family could draw...