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...week's end, 1,450 Marines, who had been on training maneuvers with the fleet, landed at Guantánamo. The U.S. made it clear in advance of their arrival that they were there for a weekend's rest, not invasion. But that calm word seemed to have little effect. In the U.N. Steering Committee, Cuba's Foreign Minister Raul Roa shouted: "The invasion can occur within the next few hours." U.S. Delegate James Barco, passing over the fact that Castro had just grabbed another 164 U.S. firms, worth approximately $250 million, hastened to set him straight...
...State Department does not expect a serious attack on Guantanamo. But last week it called in reporters to make it clear all around that if Castro strikes, the U.S. will repulse him. Though Guantánamo itself is no longer vital to defense, its possession is important to U.S. treaty rights around the world. The Navy has plans to deal with every contingency, from an assault in force to sniping from the hills. If there is a march on the gates by women and children, the Navy will disperse them without guns; if Castro cuts off the water supply...
...were eleven dictators in South America and in Central America when we came in in 1953; today there are only three left, including the one in Cuba." He accused Kennedy of "defeatist talk," declared flatly that "there isn't any question but that we will defend Guantánamo [the U.S. Navy base in Cuba] if it is attacked." Kennedy's riposte: "We have almost ignored the needs of Latin America; we have beamed not a single Voice of America program in Spanish to all of Latin America in the last eight years except for the months...
...Nationalization of foreign public service companies." ¶"Nullification of concessions to Yankee imperialists such as the King Ranch, mining and oil companies." ¶"Commercial relations with all nations, such as the Soviet Union, Communist China." ¶"Return to Cuban sovereignty of the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo." With last week's seizure by Cuba of the U.S.-owned Moa Bay nickel-mining plant, grabbing the naval base was the only one of these objectives still unrealized...
...Navy has no intention of quitting Guantánamo, and the base can undoubtedly defend itself. The Navy does not expect that. What it does wait for is an attempt to make the base untenable by cutting off the only water supply for 6,800 Navymen and dependents, 2,200,000 gal. piped in daily from a Yateras River pumping station five miles outside base limits. Several times in late 1958. Castro's rebels turned off the water just to make the Americans jump. It can be done again; within a few days, the U.S. Navy would be shipping...