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Castro has been largely out of sight for three weeks, with an illness apparently more serious than the announced "touch of pneumonia." Brother Raul rushed home last week from Moscow's flattering and pudgy embrace. Reports inevitably spread that Cuba's ruling triumvirate was caught up in a rivalry for power...
Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa, speaking before the United Nations Security Council, labeled the U.S. a "butcher'' and asked for U.N. action to head off what he said was a theoretical Yankee invasion. Soviet Delegate Arkady A. Sobolev chimed in to renew Premier Khrushchev's claim to be Cuba's protector...
...Born. To Raul Castro, 28, sideburned brother of Cuba's Dictator Fidel and boss of Cuba's armed forces, and Vilma Espin de Castro, 29, a guerilla fighter in Santiago during the civil war: their first child; in Havana. Name: Deborah (the nom de guerre of Vilma). Weight...
Then, in the presence of Morocco's visiting King Mohammed V, Soviet Power Station Minister Ignaty Novikov, Cuba's Foreign Minister Raul Roa, and scores of other dignitaries, including the American and British charges d'affaires. President Gamal Nasser yanked the switch that exploded ten tons of dynamite in the river cliff. At last, work had begun on the billion-dollar Aswan High Dam, which when built will be a mightier achievement than the proudest pyramid of the Pharaohs. It will increase Egypt's arable land by one-third, reclaiming 1,000,000 acres of desert...
...refurbished carrier Minas Gerais (once H.M.S. Vengeance) will cost $36 million, enough to pave 3,900 miles of highway-and Brazil has no naval air arm to put aboard her. Argentina has spent $1 billion on defense since 1954. "Every time Ecuador buys armaments," notes Peruvian Foreign Minister Raul Porras, "we buy as much or more"; yet General Antonio Luna Ferreccio retorts for the brass: "Peru cannot be more disarmed...