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...brother, two Cubans who had hidden Betancourt on a farm, five contacts and-in the government's first admission that Betancourt had not acted alone-five plane passengers who had "paid various sums of money to Betancourt so that he would include them on the trip." Fidel Castro blamed the whole unhappy incident on "Yankee imperialist policy that constantly stimulates and pays deserters," but he was clearly even madder that Betancourt had eluded Cuba's porous security system for so long...
...Fidel Castro: "The ground's a little wet today, eh?" Puff, puff. "I have a new cutting technique." Whack. Zing. Chonk. "First the lower part and then the upper part." Chop. Chonk...
...When Fidel Castro started promoting an airlift to evacuate Cubans to Miami last October, Washington figured that as many as 75,000 refugees might take him up on it. Fidel talked in terms of 100,000, then later 150,000. Both sides underestimated the Cubans' desire to flee the bleak little Communist isle. Last week Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Robert M. Sayre told Congress that Cuban refugees in the U.S. have applied for the evacuation of no fewer than 900,000 relatives-fully one-seventh of Cuba's population...
...place they would not be sent was to foreign embassies in Havana. The Maximum Leader had nothing good to say about officials who attend diplomatic receptions where "counterrevolutionary jokes" are told. At such gatherings, huffed Fidel, obscene stories are a "common occurrence." With that, the regime announced that henceforth all invitations to diplomatic wingdings must not be sent directly to governmental guests, but instead to the foreign ministry's protocol department for prior screening...
...Stranglehold. Frei also got unexpected-and unwitting-help from Fidel Castro. After the shooting at El Salvador, Fidel took to Havana radio to attack Chile's President as "a coward and reactionary" who had "promised revolution without blood but has given only blood without revolution." Castro's castigations struck many Chileans as an outsider's interference in domestic problems, and coupled with Frei's television address helped to undercut support for the FRAP-led general strike...