Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, he continued to talk a lot in New Hampshire. When he learned that Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro had ordered the water supply cut off from the U.S.'s Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Goldwater flailed out at the Johnson Administration: "This is another result of an indecisive foreign policy. Whenever a weaker country thinks it can thumb its nose at a stronger country and get away with it, it is going to do this." Barry called the water cutoff an "atrocity," and offered his own curbstone prescription: "Tell Castro to walk back and turn the water...
Wooden Touch. With that shot from the hip, Goldwater may well have hit his own foot. True, many people think that Castro's presence in the Western Hemisphere is intolerable and that he should be ousted-if necessary, even by an invasion of Cuba. But any such effort must be well planned, well timed-and, above all, successful. To urge an impromptu attack because of such a relatively minor irritation as Guantanamo's water-supply cutoff smacks to many of gross irresponsibility...
Dawning Suspicion. In Havana, Fidel Castro accused the U.S. of "a cold war act of aggression," while Cuba's men at the U.N. stormed about a new confrontation as dire as the 1962 mis sile crisis. In reprisal, Castro shut off the water that Cuba has been supplying to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in eastern Cuba. Guantanamo's fresh water comes from a pumping station on the Yateras River four miles from the base, is paid for by the U.S. at the rate of $14,000 a month. The Cubans have kept the pumps going...
...week's end, President Johnson also ordered most of Guantanamo's 3,000 Cuban workers dismissed, unless they agree to live on the base or spend their pay, totaling some $6,000,000 a year, at Guantanamo. All this should just about finish the incident -unless Castro wants to escalate the puny battle into a campaign to force the U.S. out of Guántanamo, thereby testing the Johnson Administration's firm ness, just as it is having its full share of troubles in Panama and half a dozen other places...
...Castro's campaign to break through the U.S. economic embargo was picking up speed. On top of recent negotiations for British buses and Spanish fishing boats, two French firms-Automobiles M. Berliet and Richard Frères-an nounced that they will sell $10 million worth of trucks and tractors to Cuba, with the French government guaranteeing up to 90% of the unpaid balance...