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...Thank you, Señor Mikoyan," said the Havana newspaper, Diario de la Marina. "Your visit has clarified many things and defined the camps: on one side the Communists and their knowing and unknowing accomplices; on the other side Cubans who want to continue being free men in a free world." Leaving Cuba after ten days, Russia's Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan had scored high, winning a trade treaty and a promise of resumed diplomatic relations. But there were many signs that the common Cuban found the new warmth between Havana and Moscow distasteful and even dangerous...
Fidel Castro and Anastas Mikoyan could hardly have been closer. They flew around Cuba in a huge blue-and-white Russian-marked helicopter. Castro showed Mikoyan the tobacco lands in the west, the Isle of Pines, a government agriculture cooperative, the Moncada barracks in Santiago, where Castro's revolution began, even the foothills of the Sierra Maestra, scene of Castro's insurrection. Mikoyan kept murmuring: "The work of the revolution is very good." One day he took time out to call on Ernest Hemingway at his country house outside Havana, presented the writer with...
Concealed from Hostility. Mikoyan's flitting was also notable for the fact that he was concealed so carefully from the people he was visiting. Between his first full day in Havana, when he precipitated a riot, and his final day, when he made no appearances in public, Mikoyan's whereabouts were a mystery. Reason: large numbers of Cubans did not hesitate to show anger and disapproval. In movie houses, audiences booed newsreels of him. A meeting of the pro-Castro Havana University Federation of University Students, called to vote censure for anti-Mikoyan demonstrators, adjourned with students shouting...
Opened to Trade. Unperturbed by these dissents, Castro plunged ahead. Four hours before Mikoyans departure, he and Mikoyan signed a detailed trade treaty. Russia promised Cuba a twelve-year, $100 million, low-interest (2.5%) credit for "equipment, machinery and materials," contracted to buy 1,000,000 tons of Cuban sugar yearly for the next five years at world market prices...
...Boarded by Pirates." Was Mikoyan boldly grabbing Cuba? New York's Senator Kenneth Keating heatedly called Cuba "a ship boarded by pirates." But official U.S. policy toward Cuba, as written by President Eisenhower, is to keep calm and wait it out, letting the Cuban people, who have a long history of hating totalitarianism, handle their own problem. Amidst signs of Mikoyan's success there were counter-signs that Cuban love of liberty was at work. The student demonstration was a blow at Castro, and the perils implicit as Mikoyan courted Cuba were the topic of many a sidewalk...