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Thus spoke Fidel Castro. Stabbing at the air, leaning dramatically against the lectern, the bearded Cuban President addressed the United Nations General Assembly for more than two hours. It was his first visit to the U.S. in 19 years, and Castro marked the occasion by larding his speech with anti-American gibes. He began by insisting that he did not intend "to use unnecessary adjectives to wound a powerful neighbor in his own house." But then he went on to accuse the U.S. of "hostile acts, pressures and threats" against Cuba...
...fanatics. We deplore the genocide the Nazis visited on the Hebrew people. But there is no event in history that parallels it as much as the genocide practiced by imperialism and Zionism on the heroic Palestinian people. --Fidel Castro...
...WHEN FIDEL CASTRO spoke last week before the United Nations General Assembly, his condemnation of Israel rolled out easily. His attack marked the high point of the savagery levelled at Israel from the rest of the General Assembly. When he bound Zionism to Nazism, Castro mocked two concepts dear to the Jewish people--the integrity of history and the integrity of language. As Castro brandished the term "genocide" he trivialized, for the sake of immediate political gain, the past suffering of the Jews. But far more dangerously, this reckless misuse of the term bodes ill for oppressed all over...
...Russians do it too, and worse, so we have to respond"--all but disintegrated. Agency men resorted to another: "We were just following orders." Though Helms and others declined to implicate the chief executives in the most sensitive operations--for example. John F. Kennedy '40 in the attempts out Fidel Castro's life--the message was clear: the CIA was not, in Frank Church's phrase, "a rogue elephant rampaging out of control." The orders had to come from somewhere...
...controls Guantanamo Bay, or Gitmo as it is known to servicemen, under a perpetual lease negotiated with the Republic of Cuba in 1903. When Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, he demanded that the Americans leave, but the U.S. refused. In 1964 Cuba cut off water to the base; the U.S. soon constructed water-desalinization and electrical-power plants to make the base self-sufficient. In accordance with the treaty, the U.S. sends. Castro a token rent of $4,000 each year. But for 19 years Castro has let the checks pile up uncashed. Last week TIME Correspondent...