Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After five weeks of uncharacteristic silence, Fidel Castro appeared to his people last week bearing bad news and mea culpas...
Facing up to the island's growing hunger, he set harsh new rationing regulations. In Havana, almost everything is to be rationed. Rice is restricted to 6 lbs. per person per month; beans, 1½ lbs.; soap, one cake ("I believe it will suffice if used economically," said Castro); eggs, five. Meat is restricted to ¾ lb. per week (enough for three small hamburgers ). Castro offered such stock excuses for the food failure as the Yankee boycott (although U.S. food exports to Cuba are still legal), but also acknowledged some of the shortcomings of collectivization. He wound up with...
...Castro, in his right mind, presumably would never try to storm Guantánamo, unless he wanted to provide the U.S. with a justification for moving in to crush his Red regime. He has no legal case against the U.S.: under a 1934 treaty that cannot be voided unilaterally, the U.S. may rent Guantánamo in perpetuity...
Starting last November, Cuban bulldozers have cleared a network of military access roads, which slope down from the surrounding hills (where Castro observation posts and gun emplacements lurk) right up to Gitmo's 24-mile fence. The mined roads lead 26 miles westward to the home base of a Castro armored pool of 51-ton Stalin tanks and 155-mm., 40-m.p.h. motorized artillery...
Along Guantánamo's fence, Castro's men are putting the final touches on their own Berlin Wall. Workers' cadres have carved a 75-yd. clearing around the base and in Iron Curtain fashion have carefully smoothed its surface in order to spot the footprints of anyone trying to escape into the base. Gangs of teen-age "Young Rebels" are painstakingly planting a "cactus curtain" of bayonet grass, a tough century plant with half-inch sawtooth barbs...