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People to People. Che even managed to have a talk with U.S. Presidential Adviser Richard Goodwin, 30, in Montevideo. With Cuba's economic plight growing daily more desperate (see below), Che's entire pitch at the conference was his desire for coexistence. According to reports, he sent Goodwin a box of Havana cigars with a note: "As writing to an enemy is difficult-and I am not good at writing-I hereby extend my hand." The two finally got together at a birthday open-house party at the apartment of a Brazilian diplomat named Gerson Augusto da Silva...
According to those who were there, Che started off with a smiling crack about the abortive, U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion. He really ought to thank the U.S., said Che, because it gave Castro the victory he needed to achieve world prestige. Answered Goodwin: It was too bad Castro had not followed it up by an attack on the U.S. Guantánamo Naval Base. Che replied that under no circumstances would Cuba attack...
Castro's man then got down to business. He said that his people needed more consumer goods, and wanted peace with the U.S. Cuba was willing to compensate the losses suffered by expropriated U.S. companies. As for those Red weapons and advisers, said Che smoothly, "we do not have, nor intend to have, any political or military alliance with anyone unless we are pressed toward it." All the U.S. had to accept was the fact that the Castro revolution was "irreversible...
Just Talking. Goodwin denied having had anything more than a few chance minutes of conversation at a party. "We talked perhaps 20 minutes." he said, "no longer, with interruptions for autographs-from him, not from me." Che surprisingly agreed. He told an interviewer that it was a "short, courteous and cold meeting, and was not important." But Che used the Goodwin talks as a wedge to wangle himself a secret appointment with Argentine President Arturo Frondizi. He then flew off to make the same coexistence offer in Buenos Aires...
...urgency in Che Guevara's pleas for coexistence reflected Cuba's increasing economic troubles. With something less than his usual cockiness. Fidel Castro announced last week that he was imposing meat rationing on the fertile "Pearl of the Antilles." All housewives must register with neighborhood butchers, who will assign them numbers. When meat arrives, the butcher is supposed to post, by turn, the numbers of housewives who may buy one-half pound per family member. The butchers do not know how often they will get deliveries from the government; the housewives do not know when-or if-their...