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...Bella saw little of Castro's hungry, rundown island during his day in Cuba. Most of the time was spent huddled with Castro officialdom. Castro and Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticós were particularly insistent that Ben Bella agree to a specific denunciation of the U.S. Guantánamo Naval Base. So was Che Guevara, the Argentine Communist in charge of Cuba's economy. "Sooner or later," he told Ben Bella, "you, too, will have to face the issue of the French naval base of Mers-el-Kebir." According to a later Algerian account of the session...
Donovan's mission was made all the more unseemly by other events that took place last week. At the U.N., Cuba's President Osvaldo Dorticos spieled forth a ranting attack, accusing the U.S. of "aggressive hysteria" and "hunger for domination." In Havana, Castro made a chestthumping speech gibing at U.S. fears that an attack on Cuba will lead to nuclear war with Russia. And in the U.S. Congress, New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating said that U.S. intelligence had detected six additional missile sites under construction in Cuba. The Administration, charged Keating, was keeping...
...image was shadowed by his intention to visit Fidel Castro in Cuba just two days after meeting President Kennedy in the White House. One of his first acts in Manhattan was to call on Cuba's President Osvaldo Dorticos, who next day denounced the U.S. in violent terms. In a mixture of Latin abrazo and the tradi tional French greeting, both men hugged and kissed each other. Linking the "kissing match" to Communism rather than to courtesy, the New York Mirror cried: "Ben Bella go home and kiss an Arab...
...came Russian-made T-34 tanks, mortars, four-barreled ZPU-4 Czech antiaircraft guns. Troops in Soviet-style helmets marched grimly past. Overhead thundered three Russian-made MIG jet fighters. Television carried the show to every town in Cuba-along with a warning from the reviewing stand by President Osvaldo Dorticós (Castro did not attend). Denouncing "the wretched counter-revolutionary provocation that took place here," Dorticós spoke in a double negative, but the assembled peasants got the idea. If they "do not allow counter-revolutionary parasites to get away with one single act of provocation," said...
...runs the country. Ten of the 25 are hard-core Communists. Nobody got any titles, but the order of the list indicated the pecking order. At the top. at least for now. was Fidel Castro and the rest of his original quartet-Brother Raul. Che Guevara and Puppet President Osvaldo Dorticos. Next on the list: Bias Roca. the boss of Cuba's Communist Party...