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...Butterfield is survived by her father, Cyrus Eaton, 95 years old, a Cleveland businessman whose liberal political views led him into friendships with Fidel Castro and Nikita Kruschev, among others...
...Angolan President Agostinho Neto, whose Marxist government is propped up by some 20,000 Cuban troops. Mobutu also charged that Cuban advisers had accompanied the raiders and Washington claimed to have proof that Cubans had helped train the Katangese and thus were "responsible" for Shaba II. Cuban President Fidel Castro denied the charge, insisting that he and Neto had both opposed the Katangese raid and had tried, unsuccessfully, to prevent...
...Fidel Castro appeared at the stadium to deliver a lecture in 1958, in one of the few earlier uses of the stadium for non-sporting events...
...While Fidel Castro has his own reasons for sending Cubans to Africa, he could not do so without huge and constant transfusions of Soviet aid. Western experts estimate that Russia now pumps the equivalent of about $6 million a day into Cuba. That figure includes outright grants, subsidies and technical aid. The U.S.S.R. sells Cuba 190,000 bbl. of oil per day at about half the world price and buys 3.5 million tons per year of Cuban sugar at four times the world price (currently 7? per lb.), paying partly with what Cuba needs most: hard currency...
...dean of the diplomatic corps, but he is certainly no high commissioner. He is generally regarded by Cuban and foreign contacts alike as a mostly ornamental, rather ineffectual apparatchik and errand boy. In fact, Tolubeyev has complained to his home office that he has difficulty getting access to Fidel. One reason may be that after more than seven years in Havana, Tolubeyev has yet to learn more than a smattering of Spanish. When Fidel wants to coordinate his signals with the Kremlin, he does so by dispatching to Moscow his brother, Defense Minister Raul, or Vice President Carlos Rafael Rodriguez...