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...tone of the Latin American speakers at last week's meeting verged on the desperate. Said Argentine President Arturo Frondizi: "The destiny of democracy is at stake." Cuba's Fidel Castro dramatically showed up and won cheers with a blatant demand for $30 billion over a ten-year period. "I realize this means a sacrifice for the U.S. taxpayer," he cried. "But they are so much richer than...
Frightfully keen on Caribbean uprisings (she was a stout supporter of Fidel Castro), Dame Margot joined Tito in Panama a fortnight ago just as he decided to have a go at overthrowing President Ernesto de la Guardia. But Tito ran into trouble from the moment he tried to get his arms and his seven-man army together on an invasion-bent shrimp boat named Elaine (he is part owner of a fishing fleet). In a chartered yacht named Nola, he rendezvoused with Elaine and a pair of arms-laden outboard-motor boats. One of the outboards' cargoes was transferred...
Wearing rumpled blue cotton pajamas, Prime Minister Fidel Castro thumbed through his press clippings one morning last week and danced a little jig in his suite at Manhattan's Statler Hilton Hotel. "You see," he cried, "they are beginning to understand us better." On his two-week U.S. tour, Cuba's gregarious boss drew bales of friendly notices and crushing crowds wherever he showed his beard. "I come to speak to the public opinion," said Castro somewhere in every speech. "I speak the truth...
...will not live one day more than the day I am going to die." He told the rally of 20,000 Spanish-speaking New Yorkers that "I came for a suffering, backward and hungry Latin America." His aim: "Humanism-liberty with bread." The crowd took up the chant, "Fidel Castro! Fidel...
Moderate Cubans hoped that Castro had learned as well as talked on his U.S. trip. One ranking member of the Castro party declared that "Fidel was astonished at his warm reception. It profoundly changed his thinking about the U.S." Red-liners in the Castro movement were worried. Major Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, pro-Communist commander of Castro's bloody Cabana Fortress in Havana, warned that "foreign influences are trying to prevent the success of the revolution...