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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Sept. 26, 1962
Today's U.S. Fears New Port a Red Base
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The United States cast anxious eyes today on Russia's latest Cuban aid maneuver — construction of a "fishing port" that is expected to become a Red naval base.
No matter what Premier Castro chooses to call the new anchorage the Soviets are building for him, officials here expected it to be a significant base for extending communist operations in several ways.
It could impose new complications on the announced United States policy of increased surveillance of Cuba and containment of Castroism.
Castro announced the joint venture over Havana Radio yesterday, saying the Soviet Union would build the port "to facilitate fishery operations of the Soviet fleet in the Atlantic area."
The Soviet fishing fleet is known to include trawlers that bristle with radio and radar antennae for eaves-dropping on such key U.S. installations as the Army, Navy and Air Force complexes in the Norfolk, Va., area.
A Cuban base for maintenance and overhaul could facilitate those operations as much as it could help the fishing enterprises of the Soviet Union.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk today continued his behind-the-scenes efforts to rally more Latin-American support for the United States' campaign to tighten the economic and diplomatic squeeze on Communist Cuba.
He invited about a half dozen South American foreign ministers to a late afternoon meeting in his hotel suite to discuss latest developments in preparation for next week's Cuban conference in Washington. It was the second such session in two days.
Cuban Developments Shipping to Cuba Under Fire in U.S. House to Act On Resolution
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Joseph Curran, president of the National Maritime Union, urged the U.S. government and private interests last night to boycott the shipping of all nations which refuse to join in halting Soviet shipments to Cuba.
Curran's call for a boycott was directed specifically at Norway, which refused earlier this week to keep its ships out of Russia's Cuba trade.
In Washington, Rep. Paul G. Rogers, D-Fla., chided Greece, Britain and Italy as well as Norway for failing to change their policy of trade with Cuba.
Elsewhere, the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) said last night that only orders from the U.S. government would stop work gangs from toting 13,000 tons of flour aboard the 14,500 ton Yugoslav freighter Drzic.
The Drzic caused the controversy after Sen. Kenneth Keating, D-N.Y., charged that it had delivered goods to Cuba before coming to the U.S. for the load of flour.
"Without government intervention, I don't think there is much we can do," said W. C. Wells, president of the Houston ILA local.
Bonn Orders Ban On Cuban Shipping
BONN — (UPI) — West German ships were banned as of noon today from making charter cargo trips between Communist bloc ports and Cuba.
The Bonn government at that time assumed control over such voyages at the request of the United States.
German shipping companies are now required to get a government license before transporting all types of freight to Cuba from East bloc nations and vice-versa.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The House was set today to give overwhelming approval to a fight-if-we-must resolution on Cuba and send it to the White House.
The Cuban resolution warns that the United States will use arms if necessary to prevent any aggressive move or offensive military buildup by Communist Cuba.
Debate on the Cuban resolution was expected to bring bipartisan pleas for unity, but also new demands to isolate Cuba from the rest of the Free World, despite the feeling of some U.S. allies that Cuba is "an American problem."
Rep. Barratt O'Hara, D-Ill., the only Spanish-American War veteran left in Congress, said the resolution was a strong reaffirmation of the Monroe Doctrine. He called for a unanimous vote to show national unity.
O'Hara, who said he "earned the right to speak on Cuba" by fighting for Cuban freedom from Spanish rule, told a reporter he hoped the resolution would never be needed.
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