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...down. Speaking with unusual intensity, Stevenson sought to accent the positive, reassuring Latin America in particular that the U.S. had no intention of reviving Yankee imperialism, but was acting in the interests of freedom after extreme, prolonged, unceasing provocation. He ridiculed the shrill contention of Raül Roa, Castro's liverish little ambassador, that the invaders were scum, hired mercenaries...
Castro accused the U.S. of staging the attack, raged that it was the prelude to direct, frontal invasion by "North American imperialists." Raúl Roa, Castro's U.N. delegate, popped up to demand that the General Assembly consider the anti-U.S. charges immediately, was eagerly backed by the Soviet Union. Adlai Stevenson, for the U.S., denied all, and cited the Cuban markings on the planes...
Guns from the North. While Vientiane danced and paraded, most of northern Laos was in the hands of the Communist Pathet Lao rebels (see map). Lean, well-conditioned guerrilla bands slipped like shadows through the green jungle, re peatedly outflanking the roa'dbound Laotian army. The rebels were backed up by Soviet artillery and munitions fed into the northern Plaine des Jarres by airlift and truck convoy from Hanoi, capital of Communist North Viet Nam. Hanoi also supplied gun crews, and each Pathet Lao company was stiffened with a cadre of from 10 to 15 North Vietnamese...
Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa answered Guatemala's proposal with a 22-page note to other Latin American governments. As usual there was a recital of U.S. sins -but this time the Cuban note was marked by what sounded like genuine alarm. The U.S., charged Roa, is giving all-out support to a new drive by anti-Castro Cubans to throw Castro out be fore the conference of American foreign ministers in Quito May 24. If that fails, Roa said, U.S. -supported anti-Castro forces would invade Cuba with the intention of setting up in a liberated section...
...Argentina, the government felt called upon to deny that it was breaking with Cuba-a gesture that did not conceal the anger of President Arturo Frondizi (once called a "viscous blob of human excrescences" by Cuban Foreign Minister Roa) over a new Castro-Communist campaign in Argentina to raise "10,000 volunteers to fight to defend Cuba." Across the Rio Plata in Uruguay, beset by labor troubles and riots. President Benito Nardone pointed up the undercover organizing work of Castro's ambassador by calling openly for a break with Castro. Colombia and Bolivia have quietly sent home the ambassadors...