Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perpetual lease, negotiated in 1903 and reaffirmed in 1934. It grants the U.S. "complete jurisdiction and control." In the nuclear age, Guantánamo no longer has any great strategic value, but with its excellent anchorage it is a valued warm-water training base- and as long as Castro controls Cuba, the base will have a special value as a free world outpost, a reminder of the U.S.'s proximity and power...
...course, were far too high for so far-fetched a motive. Many Communists apparently do not believe the story themselves. "The Soviets here are depressed and quite sensitive," reports a U.S. newsman from Bonn. "When they tell you that Khrushchev withdrew because the U.S. guaranteed the continued existence of Castro, they look quickly at your eyes to see if you buy that one. They really prefer not to talk about...
...week long the martial music blared in Havana as Castro attempted to prove to the world that he was master of his own country and not merely a bedraggled and disregarded Kremlin puppet. Units of Castro's bathtub navy put to sea for "maneuvers" while the Maximum Leader himself loped around Havana posing with militiamen. Finally, he went on TV to convince Cubans that he was still the man in charge, the one on whom events centered...
...that any plan for inspection of missile sites was a Yankee plot to "humiliate"' Cuba. "What right has the U.S. to ask this? We are the victims. We do not accept it." If Cuba's Soviet ally wants to pack up its missiles and go home, said Castro, that was Russia's business, for "the strategic arms were not Cuban property." Cuba and Russia were still buddies, he went on, though he reserved the right as an equal to bring up later "some discrepancies between the Soviet and Cuban governments...
Just so no one would misunderstand, Castro made it clear that all the other Soviet-bloc weapons already delivered-the MIG jets, heavy artillery and tanks -belonged to Cuba alone. In fact, said Castro, "several months ago the Soviet Union decided to cancel the whole arms debt of our country." Was Cuba weakened by Khrushchev's retreat? Was Castro diminished? "Don't think that the retirement of these strategic arms disarms us. All the other arms stay in this country. Fatherland or death! We will conquer...