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...becomes U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, will be succeeded by Thomas C. Mann, 47, another career diplomat. The U.S. is resolved (and committed by treaty) not to intervene militarily in Cuba. Raul Castro says, "We're not going to touch" the $76 million U.S. naval base at Guantanamo...
...issue on which the U.S. intends to stand firm is the $76 million U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, and last week there were signs that its determination might be put to test before long. Castro's newspaper stepped up its campaign against the base, charging U.S. officers with "hostility." A U.S. marine, said Revolución, had "deliberately" jostled a Cuban unionist at the base and "insulted our country with the worst phrases imaginable. Working conditions are worsening daily...
Clear Rights. The U.S. rights in Guantanamo are clear and indisputable. By a treaty signed in 1903 and reaffirmed in 1934, the U.S. recognized Cuba's "ultimate sovereignty" over the 45-sq.-mi. enclave in Oriente province near the island's southeast end. In return, Cuba yielded the U.S. "complete jurisdiction and control" through a perpetual lease that can be voided only by mutual agreement...
...Charleston, S.C., plus 19,621 acres of land, enough for a complex of 1,400 buildings and two airfields, one of them capable of handling entire squadrons of the Navy's hottest jets, e.g., 1,000-m.p.h. F8U Crusaders, 700-m.p.h. A4D Skyhawks. In terms of global strategy, Guantanamo has only marginal value. It served as an antisubmarine center in World War II, and could be one again. But its greatest worth is as an isolated, warm-water training base for the fleet. With an anchorage capable of handling 50 warships at once, it is the Navy...
Every Inch a Sailor (Oscar Brand; Elektra, mono and stereo). Guitarist Brand offers a largely unprintable tour through the racier passages of Navy mythology in a series of songs sung by the fleet in World War II-Guantanamo Bay, Subdivision Nine, Zamboanga. The cast of female characters includes such wonders as Miss VD of Guam: "Admiral Nimitz gave the order/ Better keep your noses clean/ But Miss VD was waiting/ Like a bloody sex machine...