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...Havana's cavernous Blanquita Theater, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara stood calmly before the intense delegates to the First Latin American Youth Congress and waited for the clamor to still. Then he ex plained the Cuban revolution with uncompromising clarity. "What is its ideology? If I were asked whether our revolution is Communist, I would define it as Marxist...
...Premier Ahmed Daouk pleaded wet-eyed for 90 minutes. Interior Minister Edmond Gaspard cried: "Had I the power, I would deny you the right to resign." Two prominent politicians got the news at bathing beaches and, dragging their robes, galloped across the sand to the nearest telephones. Shopkeepers in Che-hab's home town of Jounieh closed down to protest the resignation, and churches of his faith (Maronite Roman Catholic) tolled their bells in sorrow. Politicians kept Chehab's telephone jangling and pounded on the door of his Jounieh home...
...through China from banquet to banquet and agreed with the Communist All-China Federation of Trade Unions in a joint condemnation of U.S. "imperialist aggression." A Chinese Communist trade delegation to Cuba, headed by Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Lu Hsu-chang, closed a deal with National Bank President Ernesto ("Che"') Guevara to buy 500,000 tons of Cuban sugar each year for five years. A fifth of the payment is to be convertible sterling and the rest vegetable oil, rice, cotton, manufactured goods and "entire factories." In Moscow...
Tempted by visions of bartering sugar for oil, and taking the advice of the Communist who is his chief economic brain, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, Fidel Castro last week turned to Russia for the oil to run Cuba. In doing so, he seized a $20 million Texaco refinery and a $35 million Jersey Standard (Esso) refinery, both U.S.-owned, and a $20 million refinery of Canadian Shell...
...Picture. The Popular Socialist (Communist) Party, echoed by Che Guevara, sees the revolution as only "the first step toward the inevitable goal of socialism." But knowing that the step is a big one, party headquarters displays not a portrait of Lenin but one of Fidel Castro. Could Castro ever turn on his ardent backers? "That could never happen," smiles Communist Party Boss Juan Marinello, basking in the thought that establishment of relations with Russia and Czechoslovakia will probably be followed by Cuban recognition of Red China...