Word: fidelity
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...collective responsibility" of the entire Administration, not just of the CIA. In response to a Castro declaration that Cuba is officially "Socialist," the State Department issued a statement saying that the Castro regime is actually "Communist"-a fact that had long been as plain as the beard on Fidel's face (TIME, July 27, 1959 et seq.). State Secretary Rusk repeated earlier assurances that the U.S. is not planning "armed intervention in Cuba," and President Kennedy said that "we are not now training and are not now planning to train" an invasion force of Cuban exiles...
From Moscow for May Day came an appropriate laurel for Fidel Castro-a Lenin Peace Prize and $27,750 for his "tremendous contribution to the cause of strengthening the peace and the security of nations." As 500,000 arm-swinging Cubans marched through Havana's Plaza Civica last week, the bearded dictator made clear his contribution to the cause of Communism, if not of peace. Proclaimed Castro: "This is a socialist regime. Yes, this is a socialist regime"-and he seemed to mean not just a welfare state, but socialist in the way Communist states describe themselves, an imperfect...
...Lenin Peace Prizes, awarded on May Day eve, honored a couple of unlikely apostles of tranquillity last week: Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro and Guinea's President Sékou Touré. To Touré the prize seemed something of a lefthanded compliment. "We are not Communists," he proclaimed, but he accepted anyway. Castro, not a bit abashed, announced that he might rush right off to Moscow to pick up his 25,000 rubles ($27,750), added with uncharacteristic modesty that he thought of the prize "not as a personal award, but as an unmatched and great honor...
...Castro's fate, after he is deposed: "It must be decided in a fair trial whether he is a traitor or not. I am personally opposed to all executions. There will be no murders afterward, except those that fall in battle; we are all agreed on that. Fidel must be tried, and the judges must decide...
...denies that the opposition to Castro is "counter-revolutionary." "Fidel has betrayed the Revolution; we seek to restore it." This will happen, he says firmly, "within one year...