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Busy with the crisis in Birmingham last week, President Kennedy switched on a TV set to catch the news. Up came the face of a newscaster, saying: "The Administration today denied charges by a Texas Congressman that two Marine officers at the Guantánamo Naval Station shot and killed Vice President Lyndon Johnson during a tour of defense installations and secretly buried his body on the base...
...missiles in Cuba. He also rejected a compromise proposal that the job be done by the International Red Cross. And he ticked off five conditions that he said must be met before he would consider any sort of agreement 1) the U.S. must move out of the Guantánamo naval base, 2) end its economic blockade, 3) quit aiding "subversive activities," 4) abandon "pirate attacks," and 5) stop the "violation" of Cuba's air and sea space...
Cuba. naval base, held by the U.S. under a perpetual lease, negotiated in 1903 and reaffirmed in 1934. It grants the U.S. "complete jurisdiction and control." In the nuclear age, Guantánamo no longer has any great strategic value, but with its excellent anchorage it is a valued warm-water training base- and as long as Castro controls Cuba, the base will have a special value as a free world outpost, a reminder of the U.S.'s proximity and power...
Fidel Castro has long complained that the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay is being used as a hideout by guerrillas and underground fighters against his Communist police state. New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating has a complaint of his own: that Cuban refugees are being held in Guantánamo against their will. The Navy last week answered both accusations...
...told, 358 Cubans have hopped the fence into Guantánamo. A few of them have since slipped away by one means or another. The rest are still on the base, because of a legal quirk. The base commander, Rear Admiral Edward J. O'Donnell, has no authority to grant visas to the U.S., and even if he did have authority, the U.S. Cuban lease agreement of 1903 does not establish Guantánamo as a port of exit for Cuban citizens. Eager to give Castro no legal grounds for demanding annulment of the lease, which runs in perpetuity...