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...Castro, not to negotiate but rather to deliver an ultimatum: "The Cuban government has 24 hours in which to renounce all connection with the Soviet government and return to a position in keeping with the principles expressed and implied in the Monroe Doctrine." An extra 10,000 Marines on Guantanamo and the Atlantic fleet on "maneuvers" in the Caribbean should leave no doubt that we meant business...
...Communist satellite. "Kennedy is the pirate President of the 20th century," cried the Havana radio, complaining hysterically that U.S. aircraft had "fired shots" while flying past the south Cuban coastline. In a familiar Berlin-style reprisal, the Castro regime halted all vehicular traffic into the U.S. Navy's Guantanamo Base, forcing the Navy to pick up Cuban base employees at the gate and transport them to their jobs; next, Castro might try cutting off the base water supply from the Yateras River, 20 miles away. More and more, Cuban propaganda stressed what good friends the Communists were; Economic Czar...
...week. The Castro dictatorship charged that U.S. planes "violated" Cuban airspace 49 times in a single month, that a U.S. cruiser fired on a Cuban plane three weeks ago, that a rebel flare-up in Oriente province was "fed ideologically, economically and militarily" by the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo. The U.S., in turn, charged that Havana had maltreated 22 imprisoned Americans by failing not only to provide "needed foods and medicines," but by preventing the neutral Swiss from helping the prisoners...
...coast, when a Cuban gunboat drew alongside the 96-ton American cable-repair schooner Western Union and ordered it into the Cuban port of Baracoa. Well outside Cuban territorial waters, the unprepossessing Western Union moved slowly to comply, while the skipper sent off a quick message that reached the Guantanamo Naval Base...
...Hope Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Filmed portions of Hope's annual holiday-season tour of U.S. military bases, including a Christmas Day segment from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...