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Czechs Prop Up Shaky Cuba
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
Whether Nikita Khrushchev would launch World War III to protect Fidel Castro, his Cuban puppet, must for the moment remain a matter of conjecture.
But as the United States reassesses its position as a result of the failure of the Cuban invasion, reports from Havana and behind the iron curtain leave no doubt about the importance the Communist leadership attaches to its Cuban beachhead.
SCARCELY had the invasion attempt collapsed before Communist ships began arriving at Havana docks.
They carried oil, trucks, tractors Jeeps, industrial equipment, textiles chemicals, pharmaceutical goods and even glassware.
It was obvious that the shipments had started on their way before the invasion began but they were substantial evidence of Communist determination to bolster the Cuban economy, badly shaken by the communization of Cuban industry and agriculture and by frequent call-ups of the 300,000-man Cuban militia.
Planes Guard Florida
By Charles Schuman United Press International
MIAMI — Florida is little more than nine minutes away from the bases of potential hostile aircraft—the planes of pro-communist Fidel Castro's Cuban Air Force.
Floridians understandably are uneasy.
But the U.S. Air Force apparently is confident it could repel enemy invaders from Cuba before they reached Florida shores.
FLORIDA, 90 miles from Cuba, is dotted with air bases belonging to both the Strategic Air Command (SAC) and the Air Defense Command (ADC).
SAC fields house the big bombers whose job it is to fly to an aggressor's homeland and hit back. ADC fields are the bases for supersonic fighters and interceptors.
When an unidentified aircraft is picked up on radar, the Air Force
takes no chances. Up go its interceptors, which are on constant alert and can scramble within five minutes. They carry 20-mm cannon and sidewinder air-to-air missiles.
THE VULNERABILITY of Miami was on many minds on Saturday, April 15, when a Cuban plane landed at Miami International Airport after what its pilot said was a bombing attack on Camp Liberty, near Havana. Further concern comes from the knowledge that Castro now has MIG jets at his disposal.
The Cuban-American quarrel, despite its unfortunate political results, has had at least one healthful effect on American civilians, according to Hiram Tarkington, Florida civil defense director. He said interest in civil defense has improved in that state.
Florida, along with other parts of the nation, will undergo a mock bombing today in "operation alert."
They coincided with news from Washington that the United States was considering a total embargo on Cuban trade which would hit primarily the $70 million annual exports of Cuban tobacco to the United States.
NOW FROM Czechoslovakia comes word that that highly industrialized communist satellite has been thrown into the economic battle.
A new trade deal will triple last year's volume between Czechoslovakia and Cuba and bluntly was declared designed to "help eliminate the consequences of the economic blockade with which the United States government attempted to crush the revolutionary movement."
Thus Czechoslovakia, whose arms deal with Cairo five years ago led the Communist way into the Middle East, apparently now has been selected as a spearhead of the Communist drive into Latin America.
SHE ALREADY HAS taken over the training of Cuban pilots to handle Soviet MIG jets obtained by Castro and also has promised to train Cuban technicians.
The just-concluded trade deal includes delivery of industrial plants to build tractors, trucks, motorcycles and engines. The well-known Skoda Works is to supply equipment for a "foundry." Since Skoda is noted as an arms works, more than just a foundry may be involved.
The Czech deal is believed to stem from the Dec. 12, 1960, trade agreement negotiated in Moscow by Cuban economic boss Ernesto "Che" Guevara and is the first major move to shore up Castro against the United States economically.
United Tanganyika to Be Free
DAR-ES-SALAAM, TANGAN yika — (UPI) — Africans take over political power in Tanganyika on Monday as the first step toward their full independence.
The development in this British-protected United Nations trust territory was expected to spark similar African freedom movements in the other British East African territories of Kenya, Uganda and Zanzibar.
STARTING MAY 1 the 9.2 million residents of Tanganyika, with blacks outnumbering whites 500 to one, will assume control of their internal affairs, with 38-year-old Julius Nyerere slated for the prime minister's post. Defense and foreign affairs will remain under British supervision for the time being.
The change is preparatory to full independent nationhood for Tanganyika set for Dec. 28. At that time the Tanganyikans will begin running their own defense and external relations as well as internal affairs.
It is generally accepted that Tanganyika's political advance beyond other British East African territories is due largely to its racial and tribal unity.
While African tribes are fiercely divided in Uganda and now show serious divisions in Kenya, they have cooperated in Tanganyika since the German occupation which ended
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with World War I. Also, no real effort has been made to make Tanganyika a white man's country.
THE GERMAN occupation led to Tanganyika's becoming a League of Nations mandate after World War I and a U.N. trust territory after World War II. This meant that the British administrators were obligated to regard the interests of the indigenous inhabitants as paramount.
The extent of racial cooperation is evident in that every member of the legislative council elected to seats reserved for Europeans and Asians (10 and 11 respectively) supports the dominant Tanganyika African National Union (TANU). This gives Nyerere, leader of TANU, overwhelming control of the council and makes him a certainty for the prime
ministership after the council becomes the national assembly next week.
After Dec. 28 the Africans will be free to abolish reserved seats in the assembly and make all seats subject to election on the basis of "one man, one vote" regardless of race.
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Europeans have not resisted African political domination in Tanganyika, as they have in Kenya where there are less than 100 Africans to each white.
EUROPEANS IN Tanganyika are mainly farmers, civil servants and missionaries, with a scattering of tradesmen and manufacturers. The dominant element is the class of large-scale planters of sisal, a fiber which is the territory's biggest export.
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Astronaut Capsule Tested This Morning in Virginia
WASHINGTON —(UPI) The Mercury space capsule was rocketed aloft today for a brutal last test of safety equipment before an astronaut rides in it next week.
A 25-foot "Little Joe" rocket sent up the man-in-space capsule at 9:04 a.m. from its Wallops Island, Va. test station of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
THE TEST is designed to check the one-ton space cabin's escape equipment under conditions of severe atmospheric stress. Its results may determine whether a U.S. astronaut will be carried up in a similar capsule next week on a 115-mile downrange rocket ride from Cape Canaveral.
In today's test the Little Joe was to hurl the space cabin to an altitude of 35,000 feet. The cabin's automatic pilot was set to trigger the capsule's escape mechanism at that altitude 30 seconds after launching.
THIS WAS to fire the capsule's 16-foot-long escape rocket, carrying the craft to a maximum altitude of 45,000 feet from which it was expected to parachute into the Atlantic.
Naval units equipped with Marine Corps helicopters waited to recover the capsule about six miles off of Wallops Island. The entire flight was expected to take only $3 \frac{1}{2}$ minutes.
Today's firing came after three postponements, last weekend, Monday and yesterday, of an effort to repeat a test which was only partially completed March 18 because the escape mechanism fired too soon.
IN THAT flight the cabin was thrown into an unexpected tumble and its parachute failed to separate properly. But the space agency said an astronaut would have survived even that flight.
Officials said a combination of the rocket's speed and atmospheric density subjects the cabin to the greatest pressure it is ever likely to receive when the escape mechanism is triggered at the 35,000-foot altitude.
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