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With the air of a man who has won a great victory-or would like people to think he has-Fidel Castro turned his guns from the sea and ended the mythical "Yankee invasion" scare. Calling for "a quest of peace" with the new Kennedy Administration, he turned his attention inland last week, and for good reason. There is a very real foe to fight at home. It is the underground rebellion, operating in Cuba's hills and cities, infiltrating the army and government agencies, doing more damage to the new dictatorship in six months than Castro had managed...
...American nations. They can tune to the powerful beam of Radio Peking, which recently jumped its broadcasts to 31½ hours a day in Spanish and Portuguese. Or they can simply turn to their daily papers, spotted with news from the New China News Agency, which often operates alongside Fidel Castro's mouthpiece Prensa Latina...
Most startling of Trujillo's moves to the left is his sudden about-face on Fidel Castro, who two years ago sent revolutionaries to invade the Dominican Republic. Two months ago Trujillo reportedly sent a pair of trusted henchmen to a secret meeting in eastern Cuba with Castro emissaries. The result: a tentative non-aggression agreement between the two dictators and, further, possible future cooperation against common enemies, such as Venezuela's moderate President Romulo Betancourt...
...CUBA. Hours after a parade of his new Soviet tanks and artillery. Dictator Fidel Castro suddenly confronted the U.S. with a blunt and drastic demand: within 48 hours, the U.S. had to reduce its embassy and consulate staffs in Cuba to a total of eleven persons (the embassy staff alone totaled 87 U.S. citizens, plus 120 Cuban employees). President Eisenhower held an 8:30 a.m. meeting with top military and foreign-policy advisers, decided to break off diplomatic relations immediately. "There is a limit to what the United States in self-respect can endure," said the President. "That limit...
...Cuba's press stood in chains fresh-forged by Fidel Castro. On Formosa, Newspaper Publisher Lei Chen was imprisoned for daring to be critically independent of Chiang Kaishek. Indonesia's President Sukarno commanded editors to swear allegiance to his regime ("Our publication is duty-bound to support guided democracy") or lose their licenses...