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Until the eve of negotiations, fighting continued. The affair threatened to build up into an East-West confrontation, as Cuba's Fidel Castro and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser rushed aid to Algeria's Socialist Strongman Ahmed ben Bella. Unloaded at night from a pair of Cuban freighters in the Algerian harbor of Oran were at least four crated MIG jet fighters, 800 tons of ammunition, three field radio stations and more than enough Soviet-made weapons-including tanks, field guns, antiaircraft guns-to arm an armored regiment. Cuban soldiers accompanied the hardware. Neighborly Nasser also sent...
...Fidel Fell. When Mme. Nhu arrived in the U.S., ABC was first with a TV interview with her-because Lisa Howard had leaped on a plane and flown to Paris to talk to her there, getting the jump on reporters back home. She has a longstanding relationship with Nikita Khrushchev. It began when Khrushchev first came to the U.N. in 1960. Lisa, then working for the Mutual Broadcasting System, hung around the Russian embassy until Khrushchev emerged, batted her eyes at him, and charmed him into agreeing to an interview. Later at the U.N., while Khrush was fixing that loose...
Lisa's next target was Fidel Castro. For nearly a year she wrote to him through neutral embassies, slipped a letter to Fidel into the hands of Anastas Mikoyan, and persuaded miscellaneous ministers and ambassadors to ask Castro to see her. Finally her friend Alex Quaison-Sackey, Ghanaian Ambassador to Cuba and the U.N., helped get Lisa a visa. She stayed in Cuba four weeks, kept pelleting Castro with the pleas of her contacts. Castro succumbed, spent eight hours talking privately with her, and recorded a 40-minute interview after that...
Shortly after his arrival in Cuba, the Associated Press's Daniel Harker encountered Fidel Castro at a reception in the French embassy. "Why did they ever send you to Havana?" asked Castro. Marker's answer was blunt and honest. "I guess the A.P. thought I was expendable," he said. Four years after Castro's revolution sealed the island from nosy newsmen, only three Western correspondents - all wire service men - remain on duty in Havana...
...letting the Western newsmen stay, Fidel Castro may be getting the best of the bargain. Incoming wire service copy makes a useful window to the West. There are A. P. tickers in the Foreign Relations Ministry, the Union of Young Communists, the United Party of the Socialist Revolution and in many other government offices. Prensa Latina, the Castroite wire service that peddles propaganda free to any taker, might go out of business without its A.P. wires; much of what comes in is trimmed to Castro's line and sent right out again...