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Cables to Peking. In Latin America, where Red Chinese efforts have become spectacular in the past year, these aims are mixed with equal portions of outright subversion. Their base is Fidel Castro's Cuba, where Peking agents now operate a newspaper, show Chinese Communist movies at the biggest theaters, and harangue the 30,000 Havana Chinese (overwhelmingly sympathetic to Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists) at streetcorner rallies. In Havana sits Kung Mai, Peking's manager in Latin America for Hsinhua, the New China News Agency. Kung Mai has constructed an intricate web of correspondents and "cultural representatives...
Great Britain's delegate to the U.N. Trusteeship Council, a former member of Fidel Castro's Finance Ministry, and the director of the Arab Information Service in Washington are among several prominent foreign visitors scheduled to participate in the 20th Century Week "Perspectives on the U.S." program...
...While Fidel Castro has lost considerable prestige in Brazil because of his mass executions, ties with Russia, and suppression of trades unions, any U.S. action against him will fortify his support there, Garcia contended...
Cuban anti-Communists dedicated to the overthrow of Fidel Castro face a task that, militarily, grows tougher by the day. Last week a newly escaped Cuban army officer put it bluntly: "There must be a modern force of at least 6,000 men, well-trained in combined operations on land, sea and air, or else it will be thrown back into the sea." Starting in Castro's first week in power, 21 months of frantic arms buying has funneled enough military hardware into Cuba to equip no fewer than nine light divisions of 7,500 men each, give Cuba...
...steelhanded concept of duty. By long-established custom the wealthy families who control the tiny, crowded (305 persons per sq. mi.) coffee country allow the military brass to run the government so long as they keep order. Lemus tackled the problem of order keeping, aggravated both by agents of Fidel Castro and by one of the Americas' broadest gulfs between haves and have-nots (average daily agricultural wage: 60?). He outlawed unruly opposition parties, saw to it that persuasive opponents of the regime were jailed. Eight weeks ago Lemus got too tough even for El Salvador. When parading students...