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...Bella saw little of Castro's hungry, rundown island during his day in Cuba. Most of the time was spent huddled with Castro officialdom. Castro and Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticós were particularly insistent that Ben Bella agree to a specific denunciation of the U.S. Guantánamo Naval Base. So was Che Guevara, the Argentine Communist in charge of Cuba's economy. "Sooner or later," he told Ben Bella, "you, too, will have to face the issue of the French naval base of Mers-el-Kebir." According to a later Algerian account of the session...
...past five months, more than 800 marines with battle packs have landed in Guantánamo, boosting garrison strength to at least 1,100 marines and 2,000 sailors...
Last month the amateurish blue-shirted militiamen outside Guantánamo were replaced by 3,500 spit-and-polish young troops in starched fatigues. Many of them, apparently, were trained in three Czech-and-Soviet-commanded camps nestled in the hills above Guantánamo. More than 25,000 Cuban troops now surrounded the Guantánamo area...
...Along Guantánamo's fence, Castro's men are putting the final touches on their own Berlin Wall. Workers' cadres have carved a 75-yd. clearing around the base and in Iron Curtain fashion have carefully smoothed its surface in order to spot the footprints of anyone trying to escape into the base. Gangs of teen-age "Young Rebels" are painstakingly planting a "cactus curtain" of bayonet grass, a tough century plant with half-inch sawtooth barbs...
With the reinforcements has come modern equipment-new rapid-fire M14 rifles and a field patrol device which detects raiders by radar. And there is increasing support near by-an on-call Marine battalion in Puerto Rico, a U.S. fleet now stationed regularly off Guantánamo Bay, and the carrier-based, swept-wing F4H Phantom II jet fighters whose sonic booms are clearly audible in Castroland...