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Moscow's next ranking Communist guest will be Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro. Some time this month he is due to begin a two-week tour of the Soviet Union, climaxing a two-month hegira that has already carried him through six African and East European countries. During his talks in the Kremlin, Castro will doubtless discuss continuation of Soviet aid to Cuba (more than $1.5 million per day) with-just conceivably-a new emphasis by the Soviets on what Cuba can do for them in the new era of détente...
That possibility, and Castro's own shenanigans, produced some fascinating speculation. For a while, it was the usual hyperenergetic Castro road show, right down to the impromptu games that Fidel would organize whenever his itinerary took him past a basketball court. But when he arrived in Warsaw, an ambulance waited outside the Council of Ministers Building during the official reception. From then on, Castro's main sport was batting down stories that he was suffering from a heart condition. During a tour of a school he protested to newsmen, "I have a heart of steel! Some...
...links are not merely with Arabs. Fidel Castro's Cuban regime has so far trained more than 5,000 Latin Americans, Europeans, Africans and North Americans in politics and terror. But most contacts are not for the purpose of training and underground activity. Often, says one intelligence expert in Europe, they merely "get together from time to time over a joint to swap experiences and ideas." A diplomat in Beirut who has been keeping watch on international guerrillas there estimates that they number no more than 200 altogether and that "the links are more of a romantic nature than...
...Fidel Castro was less than complimentary when Houari Boumedienne replaced Ahmed Ben Bella as leader of revolutionary Algeria seven years ago. "A pimp," was the Cuban Premier's unbowdlerized estimate of Boumedienne. "A reactionary gorilla." Last week, as Castro visited Algeria in the course of a two-month hegira through Africa and the East bloc, Boumedienne had become "a great strategist" and Algeria under his rule was "a just society...
Since then, Fidel has evidently begun cutting back the army-and coincidentally there has been a strange rash of burglaries of foreign embassies. The feeling in the diplomatic community is that the burglaries are the work of ex-soldiers who resent the loss of their special perks-apartments, clothes and consumer goods-and seek to make up for the loss at the expense of well-stocked foreign embassies...