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...Fight to the Death." The war of nerves was beginning to tell on Castro and his henchmen. "We are face to face with history," roared Minister of Industries Che Guevara last week. "We cannot be afraid. This is a fight to the death." Added Castro's little brother Raul, head of Cuba's armed forces: "We must be alert. We must be implacable." Castro canceled all military leaves and placed his armed forces on full alert. Havana University was drained as students were called to arms in militia units. Night after night, radar antennas scanned...
...message seemed clear enough to the New York Times. GUEVARA CALLS U.S. DRIVE ON CUBAN TRADE A FAILURE, read the headline above a story based on a televised interview between Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, Fidel Castro's Minister of Industry, and American Broadcasting Company Reporter Lisa Howard. But the Associated Press, which was also listening, caught quite the opposite pitch. Guevara, the wire service reported to its subscribers all over the world, "concedes that the U.S. economic blockade 'has been a serious drawback' to the island's Communist regime...
...Times? In the answer lay a journalistic lesson on the danger of listening with only one ear and getting only half the story. Both the Times and the A.P. were right-both were also wrong. Each seemed to have tuned in on only that portion of Che Guevara's interview that suited their contradictory themes. Castro's man had, in fact, been indulging in a little Cuban doubletalk-as came transparently clear in any thorough reading of the interview. Extracts from A.B.C.'s tape...
...Guevara: Obviously, it has been a serious drawback...
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