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Trouble. What was behind Castro's sudden image-polishing? Washington's Castrologists put it in a word: trouble. Though Castro remains in ironfisted control of his island, the economy is just barely bumping along, cut off from any real trade with the West and without enough help from...
Aside from the New York Times, which thought that Fidel's friendly new look "deserves serious scrutiny and thorough exploration," the reaction was generally cool. The State Department regarded the Cuban overture as an attempt to buy time and take some of the steam out of the OAS, advised...
Last November Venezuela uncovered a three-ton Cuban arms cache on its northern shore, and took its evidence to the Organization of American States, charging Fidel Castro with "aggression." Last week, after seven long months of diplomatic maneuver, the OAS finally bowed to Venezuelan pressure and set July 21 as...
The OAS could go so far as to impose military sanctions against Castro, specifically a blockade to prevent further gunrunning. But the most that can be hoped for is a two-thirds OAS vote for an economic embargo to cut off Castro's remaining trade ($9,000,000 annually...
Even Awhile the OAS was meeting in Washington, new evidence was building up against Castro. Last month officials in Surinam, The Netherlands' self-governing colony on South America's northeast coast, reported that Castro gunrunners in high-speed launches are smuggling large amounts of arms down the Courantyne...