Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arrogant Tirade. As if all this were not enough, Castro picked last week to launch an arrogant tirade against the U.S. In a defiant letter to Acting U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, he rashly threatened to shoot down U.S. reconnaissance planes that have been keeping a daily watch on Cuba, fiercely attacked the U.S. for "typically Hitlerite methods." and restated his refusal to allow any "national or international" group to inspect Cuban territory...
...Castro's threats came close to being the last straw. The U.S. Government announced that not only would it continue its aerial reconnaissance flights until it had proof that a military buildup had stopped, but that it would defend the flights if necessary. If Castro shoots down a U.S. aircraft, the U.S. is prepared to 1) bomb certain Cuban antiaircraft installations already targeted for U.S. air strikes, and 2) bomb the Il-28s now crated or semiassembled at San Julian airfield in western Cuba...
...once arrogant-or at least voluble -Castro soldiers ringing the base are not so cocky any more. In a month Guantanamo has been transformed from a post guarded by a thin contingent of marines into a front-line fort manned by thousands of combat-ready troops facing the 10,000 militiamen Castro has outside. It is not a particularly pleasant duty. The shrapnel-proof vests the marines wear are hot; they call Cuba's tiny, biting insects "flying teeth," and they already have a marine nickname for the militiamen opposite-"Ruben the Cuban." The marines have no special animosity...
Russia's retreat in Cuba and Red China's attack in India are dividing partisans of Moscow and Peking everywhere. A minority faction of "Chinese" and Stalinist sympathizers in the Belgian Communist Party supported the "rectitude of Castro's cause" and condemned the "imperialist aggression of Nehru." On the other hand, Italian Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti, once a Stalinist but now a loyal Khru-shchevite, pointedly declined to take sides between India and China. Said he: "We don't know where the truth lies...
...Premier Ahmed ben Bella, who clawed his way to power two months ago, his mystique has been badly tarnished by intraparty squabbles and by his international status seeking in Havana and points East. Ben Bella's latest excuse for his recent visit to Castro: "I would have failed in my duty if I had not gone to Cuba to learn about its experiences and avoid in my country the errors that have been made there...