Word: fidelity
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Nevertheless, he continued to talk a lot in New Hampshire. When he learned that Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro had ordered the water supply cut off from the U.S.'s Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Goldwater flailed out at the Johnson Administration: "This is another result of an indecisive foreign policy. Whenever a weaker country thinks it can thumb its nose at a stronger country and get away with it, it is going to do this." Barry called the water cutoff an "atrocity," and offered his own curbstone prescription: "Tell Castro to walk back and turn the water...
Dawning Suspicion. In Havana, Fidel Castro accused the U.S. of "a cold war act of aggression," while Cuba's men at the U.N. stormed about a new confrontation as dire as the 1962 mis sile crisis. In reprisal, Castro shut off the water that Cuba has been supplying to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in eastern Cuba. Guantanamo's fresh water comes from a pumping station on the Yateras River four miles from the base, is paid for by the U.S. at the rate of $14,000 a month. The Cubans have kept the pumps going...
...hard to convince people to plot, against Fidel Castro, because right now he's on top of the world," he said. Quijano counted the recent treaty with the Soviet Union, the operation of Cuban-trained guerrillas in Africa (presumably in the recent revolution in Zanzibar), and the general turmoil prevailing throughout Latin America as key factors to Castro's strength...
Quijano traced the history of the Cuban revolution for the more than 40 people at the meeting. He said that with the exceptions of Fidel's brother, Raul Castro, and Che Guevara, minister of finance, the movement until 1959 was "genuine and nationalistic, supported by a large part of the Cuban people." At this time Castro was definitely not a communist, he vestured, although the leader did have Marxist ideas...
...sharp question and answer session. Quijano gave his analysis of Cuba's difficulties. "Fidel may have diagnosed the disease correctly," he said, "but whereas the disease may have only needed an aspirin, he performed a major surgery...