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...fleet, landed at Guantánamo. The U.S. made it clear in advance of their arrival that they were there for a weekend's rest, not invasion. But that calm word seemed to have little effect. In the U.N. Steering Committee, Cuba's Foreign Minister Raul Roa shouted: "The invasion can occur within the next few hours." U.S. Delegate James Barco, passing over the fact that Castro had just grabbed another 164 U.S. firms, worth approximately $250 million, hastened to set him straight. "The U.S. has no plans or intentions to attack Cuba. Cuba need have no fear...
...week produced other thrusts between the U.S. and Cuba. In Washington, Cuba withdrew from the null Bank. At the U.N., Foreign Minister Raúl Roa asked for immediate consideration of an alleged plot by the "Pentagon and U.S. monopolies" to launch a "large-scale invasion" of Cuba "within the next few days." Roa cited an alleged arms drop on Sept. 29 at 2 a.m. on the slopes of the guerrilla-speckled Escambray hills "by a four-motored aircraft of U.S. registry coming from the U.S. and piloted by U.S. airmen...
...minute talk with Nkrumah. Meeting Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, Castro agreed to exchange ambassadors. He received visits from India's Nehru and from Bulgarian Red Boss Todor Zhivkov, but paid only one call on fellow Latin Americans, attending a Uruguayan reception. Said Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa: "Of all the men Dr. Castro met, next to Khrushchev, he felt a bond for Nasser. Nehru is weak. Not Nasser-he really...
Actually, Roa is a mere lackey in the Castro administration. He is not a part of the inner circle, and ranks not as a maker but as an executor of policy. He is told what to do and how to do it. The foreign ministry strongman is Carlos Olivares, nominally the subsecretary, who is much closer to the Communists. Roa's problem is that he cannot live down the evidence of his earlier independence. A collection of his 1953-58 writings published last year under the title En Pie (Afoot) shows that until recently he was above all antiCommunist...
...Costa Rica, Arcaya was Castro's warmest non-Cuban supporter at the meeting of the Organization of American States that censured Cuba. As a mortified Betancourt listened by short-wave radio, Arcaya fought to water down the resolution rapping Cuba, warmly embraced Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa (who happens to be Arcaya's fifth cousin). A phone call from Caracas summoned Arcaya off the floor. "You will return a hero of the Communists but not a friend of mine," said Betancourt, who thereupon ordered Arcaya to step aside and let another delegation official sign the resolution...