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Another volley was fired last week in the ongoing war of words between Washington and Havana, but this time the barrage came from an unexpected source. In an article published in the fall issue of the quarterly Foreign Policy magazine, Wayne Smith, a former State Department official, delivers a stinging critique of the Reagan Administration's policies toward Cuba. Charges Smith: "Its approach is as hackneyed as it has been unsuccessful...
...1960s, he was literally everywhere at the right time. He was in the Congo in 1960 during that country's bloody fight for independence. Subbing for a colleague, he was in Berlin the night East Germany began building the wall. He spent the Cuban missile crisis in Havana, residing in a government prison. Once again on substitute duty, he arrived in Dallas in November 1963 and later covered the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He covered the massive civil rights demonstrations and urban riots during the middle and later parts of the decade, culminating in the violence...
DIED. Raúl Roa García, 75, Foreign Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, whose acerbic voice enunciated Fidel Castro's scathing views of U.S. policies toward his country; in Havana. A supporter of Fulgencio Batista until they had a falling-out, Roa was named by Castro after he ousted the dictator. Despite Roa's anti-Yanqui stance, he negotiated an agreement with the U.S. in 1965 that allowed an airlift of Cuban emigrants and another in 1973 providing for Cuban punishment of airplane hijackers...
...stir up trouble in Latin America. Addressing a conference of nations professing nonalignment with the major powers, Costa Méndez then roundly denounced the "aggression of Great Britain" and said he was "astonished that the U.S. has given Britain arms and assistance to kill our people." Before leaving Havana, Costa Mendez signed a $100 million trade agreement with Cuba, which had earlier promised Argentina "all necessary help...
...also blames the U.S. and the industrialized nations for their unrestrained competition in arms sales. Says he: "At the moment, there is no more dangerous area of the world than Latin America." Cuba has offered to send troops and arms to Argentina, but the most that U.S. experts expect Havana to gain is propaganda points against the U.S. and a little less political isolation from its Latin American neighbors...