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...halfway to Moscow aboard an Aeroflot TU-114 turboprop before the Cuban people were told that he was gone. Even to his Russian hosts, Fidel Castro's visit seemed a surprise. Only two welcoming banners could be seen hanging in the 21° cold at Vnukovo airport. But out rolled a Red carpet, and Premier Nikita Khrushchev was on hand to snuggle into the beard when the Maximum Leader came bounding down the ramp...
...Viva Fidel! Led by men wearing red T shirts and howling Viva Fidel!, raging mobs set fire to the Braniff and Pan American Airways buildings, the Sears Roebuck store and a Goodyear Rubber plant. The USIS office was destroyed. In the city of Colón, 38 miles away, another well-coordinated riot erupted. Along the border, Zone police tried to disperse the crowds with tear gas, fired in the air, at last lowered their aim. General Andrew P. O'Meara, commander of the U.S. Southern Command, sent Army troops to the border. Snipers from the Panamanian side started...
Figueres dismissed the claim that the current agitation was due to the influence of Fidel Castro and said that there had been anti-American feeling in Panama fifty years before Castro. Such friction resulted from the identification of American interests with the Panamaian ruling class, he said, but the situation had been improved under the Alliance for Progress...
...human necessity is rationed, the country is in economic confusion, "voluntary" fund drives are confiscatory, wages are falling through the cracks in the floor, and men and women alike are being drafted for forced labor in the fields. But last week on the wooden anniversary of the Cuban revolution. Fidel Castro was still the picture of Communist bluster, and his helpless people still cheered obediently...
...Sugar, No Mills. But after five years of Fidel, there was nothing to cheer about in a Cuban economy sinking steadily lower with little hope of improvement. Mismanagement and a catastrophic October hurricane reduced the 1963 sugar crop to 3.8 million tons-lowest in 20 years and half the size of the pre-Castro harvest. This year, according to U.S. estimates, the crop will run only to 4,000,000 tons-barely enough to meet Cuba's Iron Curtain commitments. Russia had promised to deliver 3,500 automatic cane loaders and build 500 more in Cuba. As of last...