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Tuesday, Oct. 30, 1962 University Daily Kansan
USSR May Put More Pressure On U.S. Bases
WASHINGTON — (UPI) After Nikita S. Khrushchev wades out of Cuba and packs his missiles back to Russia, he can be counted on to fire up a new campaign to have America's overseas military bases dismantled.
BEHIND MOSCOWS capitulation to President Kennedy's demands that Soviet rockets be taken out of Cuba lay the knowledge that U.S. bases were loaded with bombers, missiles and other weapons ready for whatever may come.
KHRUSHCHEV's weekend messages to Kennedy were docile sounding, but the point on bases was clear.
As an effort to break through the defensive ring held together by the bases, the Cuban adventure miscarried. As a bargaining point to get U.S. bases junked in Turkey or elsewhere, it also failed.
Dissolution of those global outposts, which encircle the Communist empire, has been a consuming goal of the Kremlin.
American leaders have been at pains during the Cuban crisis to differentiate between U.S. bases and the Russian rocket threat in Cuba. America threw up its ring of men and missiles, aircraft and ships, to confront Soviet military planners after the Berlin blockade, the seizure of Hungary, and other maneuvers left no doubt of Red intentions.
But more will be heard in any negotiations on disarmament, nuclear weapons control or relaxation of tensions.
Breaking up this defense structure has been the Soviet's long-time aim, underlying political maneuvering to divide America from its allies.
WITH MORE than 500,000 troops abroad, the Army is arrayed along the Iron Curtain in Europe at the edge of the no man's land separating North and South Korea, in Thailand, Okinawa and Panama.
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Mediator's Role Sought by Brazil
HAVANA — (UPI) — Brazil sought today to assume a role of mediator between the United States and Cuban Premier Fidel Castro.
Gen. Albino di Silva, military aide to Brazilian President Joao Goulart, arrived here as the president's special emissary yesterday and was authorized to start talks "that would permit arrival at an understanding between the parties involved in the current crisis," an embassy spokesman said.
Reward Suggested For Khrushchev
BARSTOW, Calif. — (UPI) — A suggestion that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev be allowed to visit Disneyland as a reward for helping ease tensions in the Cuban crisis was offered today by newspaper publisher Charles K. Dooley.
"In view of Khrushchev's decision to take a sensible attitude in regard to the Cuban crisis, the Desert Dispatch believes that he should be allowed to attend Disneyland with his wife with the full protection of the U.S. armed forces," the telegram said.
Dooley, who publishes the Desert Dispatch at this southern California desert city, made the suggestion in a telegram to President Kennedy.
MIAMI—(UPI)—The Castro regime went all-out to regain some of the prestige it lost when the Soviet Union went over Havana's head to negotiate the Cuban crisis with the United States.
Fidel's Prestige Gets a Push
Government-controlled newspapers, radio and television stations sought to convince their audience that "everyone" in Cuba and abroad supported Premier Fidel Castro in the showdown with the United States, in which Russia agreed to dismantle its Cuban missile bases.
THE CASTRO propaganda machine also pushed for public acceptance of Castor's five minimum demands for ending the Cuban crisis, including U.S. withdrawal from the Guantanamo Naval Base.
IN CARACAS, the Venezuelan government accused the Castro regime of turning loose terrorists to bolster its sagging prestige. This charge was supported by U.S. intelligence sources in Washington.
Army chief Raul Castro, Fidel's younger brother, said in a statement intended for other Latin American nations, "to those people who have made our cause their own, we say Cuba will not fail them."
Latin American experts regarded this as a pledge to continue Communist agitation in the Western hemisphere no matter what the outcome of the current crisis.
An informed source said the embassies of six Latin American countries have conveyed to the U.S. State Department their anticipation of renewed Cuban terrorist campaigns.
However, most observers expected Castro to "lie low" pending completion of the Soviet missile bases issue.
SOVIET-CUBAN solidarity was outwardly unchanged by the crisis. In the United Nations, Cuban delegate Mario Garcia Inchaustegui rose yesterday to support the Russian proposal for a nuclear ban without inspection—only 72 hours after his own country had been revealed as the first Latin American nation with the means to launch nuclear warheads.
Some Cuban exiles were disappointed that Castro had not been ousted by the United States, but Carlos Prio Socarras, Cuban expresident, gave strong support to President Kennedy's policies.
PRIO SAID many Cuban exiles "perhaps feel a bit disappointed" because Cuba was not invaded, "but one needs only to go back 10 days to understand how much we have advanced in our struggle to overthrow Castro and his Communist government."
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Reds Rationalize Rocket Removal
MOSCOW—(UPI)—Moscow Radio said today that Soviet missile bases in Cuba had forced President Kennedy to "renounce the big stick policy" and "declare he will not use force in Cuba."
"This is the reason why the Soviet government has considered it possible to dismantle the rocket bases in Cuba which were only destined to prevent imprudent actions by the imperialists," said the broadcast, which was beamed at the Caribbean island.
It was the part of a series of radio and newspaper explanation giving the Soviet view of why Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev agreed to the U.S. demand to withdraw the missiles.
The whole tenor of the campaign has been to portray Khrushchev as the champion of peace and depict the United States policies as the basic cause of the Cuban crisis.
At the same time, there has been a notable lack of anti-U.S. vituperation in the commentaries.
The Russians appeared to be ignoring Fidel Castro's demand that the United States get out of Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba as part of a settlement.
A high Soviet military source in Moscow indicated that Castro probably will have to abide by any arrangement forged between Moscow and Washington.
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