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...Castro has been abusive as ever toward the U.S. and the OAS, longtime observers now sense that his tune could change quickly-if Moscow were to order it and if Washington were to come across with an agreement to, say, give up the Navy's obsolete base at Guantànamo and invite Cuba back into the lucrative U.S. sugar quota system...
...counterpoint last week to the nation's celebrations of the tenth anniversary of Fidel's reign. In the largest single escape attempt of the Castro years, 88 managed to fight their way past border guards and through the barbed wire surrounding the big U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay,* near the island's southern tip. Fifty or 60 others were left behind, killed or captured by Cuban guards...
...well-planned attempt despite the losses. The organizer was a Havana trucker named Delgado, refugee sources said, who made regular trips between the capital and the southern area near Guantánamo. Delgado decided to use his huge trailer truck to crash through the barriers, and a list of passengers was drawn up. Last week Delgado set off from Havana on a regular run, but this time a number of men, women and children were concealed in the truck. More were picked up in Cienfuegos and Camagüey, and by the time the truck reached the city of Guant...
...Guantánamo, he evidently took the wrong road and crashed head-on into a sentry hut. "Everyone piled out," one refugee recalled, "and began running for the fence about 200 yds. away. One of our men began shooting at the guards to hold them off, and they answered the fire while we were climbing over the barbed wire, shredding our hands. We threw the children over...
...Guantánamo, known as "Gitmo" to Navymen, was granted to the U.S. under a 1903 treaty signed after the Spanish-American War. The base covers 45 sq. mi., contains a supply depot and repair facilities, and is visited by about 130 Navy vessels a year...