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Castro Plotting Fake Invasion, Refugees Warn
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Diplomatic dispatches from Cuba said today Premier Fidel Castro may be plotting a fake invasion to "liquidate" imprisoned leaders of the unsuccessful April Pig's Bay attack.
The warning coincided with reports of a huge buildup of Castro armed strength, Havana radio warnings that invasion is "imminent" and an official alert of Cuba's 300,000-man Army.
ONE SUCH MESSAGE quoted Castro as having told its author there would be an "invasion" within 10 days and from three directions.
Cuban exiles revealed they have been warned of the possibility of such an intrigue in messages from Havana from friendly Latin American diplomats.
IN WASHINGTON, however, informed sources said a phony action more likely would be almed at "backing up" Cuba's recent United Nations charges of "aggression" against the United States and to divert national attention from the failing economy which is due to worsen because of drought.
Cuban Revolutionary Council President Jose Miro Cardona said he fears a "fake" invasion to give Castro a pretext to execute the men whose lives he now is obliged to respect under international law.
Miro said it is "obvious" no invasion of Cuba is in the offing. He recalled the April attack was "forecast" by U.S. news media weeks in advance. It is well known exiles are not in position for an "immediate" armed attack against Castro, he said.
Earlier this week, spokesmen for six governments accused by Castro of training invasion troops flatly denied the allegations.
SOURCES IN WASHINGTON confirmed Gander, Nfld., reports that Soviet Russia is daily moving "large numbers" of military and technical personnel by air between Prague, Czechoslovakia, and Havana.
Passengers on Cubana (official)
airlines manifests were identified by the
the Canadian Royal Mounted Police
as Russians, Poles, Czechs, and
communist Chinese as well as Cuban Air
Force personnel. ___
We glean spiritual harvests from our own material losses.—Mary Baker Eddy
Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss but cheerily seek how to redress them.—Shakespeare
Friday. October 13, 1961 University Daily Kansan
Inasmuch as we too are members of the university family as well as citizens of the United States of America:
Following is the declaration the Negro students presented to the administration at the end of today's protest march:
Negro Declaration
And inasmuch as our ancestry in these United States dates back some 300-odd years;
And as it is our strong feeling that under a segregated system (or any system in which a certain group is oppressed) the individuals of the oppressed group cannot attain their potential;
And inasmuch as we feel a moral responsibility to our associates at the university in particular and to the world at large not to deny nor equivocate their rights.
And inasmuch as we too are capable of contributing to the overall culture;
We strongly urge that the university administration take immediate haste in recognizing its moral responsibility to all students of the university.
- The failure of the administration to take the necessary steps that would bring about the elimination of discriminatory practices used by local landlords when renting to members of the university family.
- The failure of the administration to take the necessary steps that would bring about the elimination of discriminatory practices used by local real estate agencies when selling property to members of the university family.
We state specifically the following grievances:
This is the opinion of Melvin Mencher, assistant professor of journalism at the University of Kansas, in a series of articles he wrote for the Christian Science Monitor, Denver Post and the McClatchy Newspapers of California. He gathered material for the articles on his return trip from Costa Rica where he was a member of the K.U. faculty exchange group.
"CHANGE IS COMING to Central America." Mencher wrote, "abrupt and vast change. Central America seethes with excitement, for everyone knows the status quo is doomed, that far-reaching social, economic and political reforms are around the corner."
The key question, he writes, is how Central America will turn that corner, "by revolution, violent and bloody, or by evolution, slow and tentative?"
The United States is supporting conservative and rightist forces in Central America in the hope these regimes can bring about reforms without revolution.
US Hopes for Central American Reform
THE UNITED STATES is supporting the forces for slow change. "This has led the State Department to work with President Somoza
All have questionable backgrounds, but the United States is acting in the belief that these ruling groups "sincerely want social, economic and political reform in their countries."
in Nicaragua, the three-man Directorio in El Salvador and President Ydigoras Fuentes in Guatemala," the K.U. professor writes.
IN MANAGUA, where Prof. Mencher interviewed U. S. Ambassador Aaron S. Brown, the embassy is convinced that "Somoza is no dictator, that Nicaragua is not a dictatorship."
There is some degree of press freedom and political opposition in Nicaragua, Mencher found. But here, as in El Salvador and Guatemala, the basic freedoms can be denied with the scrawl of a signature under a document declaring a state of emergency.
Stay of Execution Sought for Andrews
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Atty. Gen.
William M. Ferguson today prepared to file in federal district court a motion asking that the stay of execution for triple-killer Lowell Lee Andrews be dissolved.
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