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...days in advance, workers were painting Havana's threadbare buildings, draping banners, and hanging enormous murals depicting Brobdingnagian revolutionaries. The festivities began with a New Year's blast in the Plaza de la Revolución, where 50,000 Cubans and guests paid $3 a head for a spread of roast pig and chicken, and toasted the year with hundreds of gallons of Spanish wine...
...Cover) It was Fidel Castro's first major speech since the July 26 anniversary of his 1953 attack on the Moncada barracks that started the Cuban revolution. There he stood last week before a crowd of 50,000 in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución, meandering for hours about everything and nothing - poverty, classroom shortages, taxes, new houses, and the problem of bureaucrats who do "absolutely nothing." Then, amid the chatter, he dropped two electric statements that instantly set telephones jangling from Miami to Washington. Castro offhandedly promised to 1) let any Cuban with relatives...
MIGs & Rockets. Above the reviewing stand in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución screamed supersonic MIG-21 Russian fighters, now flown, said announcers, "by Cuban youngsters." Below rolled an hour-long parade of Russian-made tanks, artillery, armored cars, rocket launchers-and battalion after battalion of tough-looking, Russian-trained troops. "We alone." shouted Castro, "could not have resisted imperialism-the blockades, the aggressions, the economic strangulation. But with these arms, we can fight against the best-equipped forces of the imperialist Army...
...almost two miles on both sides of Avenida Revolución, Tijuana's main drag, bright yellow, white, red, blue and green neon signs festoon the dirty façades of grubby joints. In front of each stands a swarthy doorman, generally wearing baggy dark pants and a soiled red coat with heavily padded shoulders. To passing wolf packs of mufti-clad U.S. marines and sailors, he calls in an inviting voice: "Hey, Meester! Want to see nice French movies? Nice exhibition? You want nice girls?" "Take It off" The "good time" joints feature underlighted interiors, watered rum, tequila...
...break; there was hopeful-overhopeful-talk of similar break-offs by the six remaining Latin nations that still have embassies in Havana. Castro had already made his reaction clear enough on the subject by assembling 1,000,000 (by Cuban count) people in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución. Cried Castro: "The OAS was unmasked for what it is-Yankee Ministry of Colonies and a military bloc against the peoples of Latin America...