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...conviction provide the basis for an effective foreign policy? No. No President of the United States can avoid the problem of power and how to use it effectively and responsibly. An effective policy does not consist in orders to the marines to turn on the water mains at Guantanamo, or in unleashing Cuban exiles to attack Russian merchant ships trading with Cuba...
...said an M.R.R. spokesman in Miami, Artime and a "strong force of commandos" had gone ashore at Puerto Pilón, 145 miles from Guantanamo on Cuba's southern coast...
...could only guess at the motives behind Castro's new militancy. The U-2 complaint may be part of a buildup for aggression charges that Castro threatens to bring against the U.S. at the U.N. As if to broaden his case, Castro again charged U.S. Marines at the Guantanamo naval base with "outrages and provocations," including throwing rocks across the border fence and urinating on a Cuban flagpole. But no one could rule out the possibility that Castro gunners might actually take a shot at a U.S. plane...
...boat commander in World War II, John D. Bulkeley rescued General Douglas MacArthur from Corregidor and won a Congressional Medal of Honor for "extraordinary heroism." A rear admiral now and C.O. of the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Bulkeley, 52, is not the sort to take any guff from Fidel Castro. Last week, when Castro accused the base of using suction pumps to draw off on the sly some 114,000 gallons of Cuban water daily, Bulkeley replied: "Hogwash." Guantanamo was using its own water - the mains from Cuban territory were shut tight. "Castro is calling me a liar...
Precisely what remains hidden today, however, is what we should expect de Gaulle's visit next month to unearth. The General is hoping that Latin uneasiness with U.S. pressures on Panama after the Canal Zone riots and South American distaste at Johnson's "over-reaction" to minor provocation at Guantanamo will push many of the southern continent's leaders toward the French camp...