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Throughout most of the cold war years, the world has lived in a state of constantly recurring crisis. So accustomed have so many become to the condition that its absence can cause a vague sense of unease. Cyprus? Guantanamo? Panama? South Viet Nam? East Africa? Malaysia? All are trouble spots. But taken separately or even together, they do not quite seem to spell CRISIS. Feeling this, the average newsreader is likely to have certain qualms and begin to wonder if something isn't really going on that he ought to know about and be able to worry about...
...West's new leaders probe for new foreign-policy approaches, there is always the danger of a misstep. Johnson, for instance, almost certainly overreacted to Fidel Castro's nuisance-value move of cutting off Guantanamo's water supply. He has got to learn that activity, or even action, is not to be equated with wisdom. And he seems to be more thin-skinned than a Texan should be over criticism of his conduct of foreign affairs. Last week, before a group of Internal Revenue agents, he made some petulant off-the-cuff remarks in defense...
Whatever Fidel Castro may have had in mind with his water war against Guantanamo, the U.S. last week moved to make the Navy base "a little more ready" for any eventuality...
...accused the U.S. of "a cold war act of aggression," while Cuba's men at the U.N. stormed about a new confrontation as dire as the 1962 mis sile crisis. In reprisal, Castro shut off the water that Cuba has been supplying to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in eastern Cuba. Guantanamo's fresh water comes from a pumping station on the Yateras River four miles from the base, is paid for by the U.S. at the rate of $14,000 a month. The Cubans have kept the pumps going without interruption, even during...
...move, the base has a reserve of over 15 million gallons on hand; there is also a special tanker that can convert 100,000 gallons of salt water a day into fresh water. By cutting down use from 2,000,000 gallons a day to 500,000 gallons, Guantanamo can go a month with what it has, and tankers from the U.S. can bring in whatever is needed from then on to make the base permanently self-sufficient. At week's end, President Johnson also ordered most of Guantanamo's 3,000 Cuban workers dismissed, unless they agree...