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But what to do about him? The U.S. has long ceased to talk about overthrowing him. Notions of staging another invasion by Cuban exiles have been shelved" supplies promised the shattered anti-Castro underground inside Cuba have been deliberately withheld, and exiled Underground Leader Manuel Ray has taken an economic...
Yells from Castro. Latin American opinion, which recoils from the thought of any Yankee intervention, took this one in stride. Fidel Castro, with designs of his own on the Dominican Republic, claimed that the whole maneuver was merely designed to set a precedent for action against him. He sent delegates...
Ramfis went along with the arrangement, and by his standards, evidently thought that he had lived up to his part. His Uncle Arismendi sailed off across the Caribbean in the frigate Presidente Trujillo. His Uncle Hector cruised the same sea in the family yacht Angelita. He surrendered eight sugar mills...
Partial Reward. In Washington, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Robert Woodward went before the OAS Sanctions Committee. Despite reservations expressed in an OAS Human Rights Commission report (e.g., "the serious problem that has arisen as a result of the arrest and disappearance of several persons"), said...
Uncles Héctor and Arismendi were even angrier. "The boy is giving away the island," raged General Arismendi, and, over Ramfis' protests, the two flew home. Woodward was left with no alternative but to make an embarrassing return trip to the OAS to ask that action on his...