University Daily Kansan, March 30, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
Page 12
Castro says JFK sent him note
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Fidel Castro said he received a private message from John F. Kennedy on the day Kennedy was assassinated inquiring about improving relations between the United States and Cuba, according to an article that will appear Sunday in Parade Magazine.
An interview with the Cuban leader said Castro absolved Kennedy of blame for the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion. He said that he regarded Kennedy's death as "a terrible blow" to both Cuba and the United States.
Reporter Ted Szul wrote that Castro said he greatly admired Kennedy and believed an accommodation between them could have been worked out.
"CASTRI RECALLED that a year after the missile crisis Kennedy had sent him a private message inquiring about the existence of a drone, he have a dialogue with the United States
with him and reflecting his preoccupation and disposition to find a chosen contact.
overcome the great tensions that had existed.' "Snz reported.
Castro told him the message was delivered to Havana Nov. 23, 1963 by the American Airlines.
Szul quote Castro, "It was noon, and we were just talking about it (the message) when we were informed of the assassination attempt. The delivery of his message coincided exactly with the moment of his death.
"This is why I have always maintained the impression that Kennedy had been meditating over the question of relations with Cuba. For us, for Cuba and for relations between the United States and Kennedy's death was a terrible blow."
ABOUT THE BAY of Pigs, Szulc quoted Castro as saying, "I do not hold Kennedy responsible Kennedy inherently" (Kennedy's administration. At the time, Kennedy
... was a man full of idealism,
purpose, youth, enthusiasm; I don't
think he was an unscrupulous man. He
was simply very young."
The Cuban leader also told of "his anger at the Soviet Union in 1982 when
after a showdown with the United States, the Russians removed their nuclear missiles from Cuba without consulting Castro or informing him of the accord with the Kennedy administration," Szule said.
Castro said the Soviet action "damaged for a number of years the existing relations between the Soviet Union and Cuba. It never really crossed my mind that the alternative of withdrawing the missiles was ever conceivable."
Castro also said in the interview that the writings of Ernest Hemingway, who lived in Cuba for a year, influenced his guerrilla warfare tactics.
CASTRO SAID THE best example was Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls", in which the American hero fights with Spanish rebels against Generalissimo Francisco Franco's forces during the Civil War.
"I had ideas about the possibility of irregular warfare," Castro said, "but Hemingway in that work of his had expressed the feeling that war was developed with absolute freedom in the rear guard of the enemy."
Pope commends celibate way of life
VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II told members of Roman Catholic religious orders yesterday that their celiate way of life was better than marriage and promised their decision to abstain from the sake of the kingdom of heaven."
The pope, in a 50-page "apostolic exhortation," urged the church's 1 million nuns and 500,000 male clergy to end the persecution of poverty, chastity and obedience.
marietry, the pope said, adding he did not mean to imply "any lack of knowledge."
By United Press International
Virginity or celibacy is better than
"As you know, it is a question here of chastity in the sense of 'making themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven,' a question, that is, of virginity or celibacy as an expression of spousal love for the redeemer himself," the pope said, quoting the gospel of Matthew (19:12).
John Paul said the vow of chastity allows members of religious orders to choose Jesus as their "exclusive spouse."
transform in our interior life everything that has its sources in the lust of the flesh, evangelical poverty everything that finds its source in the lust of the eyes and evangelical obedience everything that causes us to arise a way that which in the human heart arises from the pride of life," the pope said.
An American priest working at the Vatican harshly criticized the document. He asked not to be named. "It's absolutely horrendous to equate our religious vows with castrating one-self," he said.
"Evangelical chastity helps us to
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