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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand Page 6 The Utah Independent February 4, 1980 of the U.S. is a missiles in Cuba. Today, the eastern half The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 was ended when the Soviet Union promised to remove them from Cuba. But the promise was never kept. The tarps covering the missiles being removed were never lifted for U.S. inspection. The Soviets had agreed to on-siinspections by the U.S. to assure us that the silos were empty . The U.S. never conducted such inspections. bulUs-ey- e for Soviet-manne- d EXCLUSIVE TO SrOTLICHT By Mike Blair nuclear missiles are poised for instant firing About 50 intermediate-rang- e against targets in the United States from a vast complex of underground caves and tunnels throughout Cuba, The SPOTLIGHT has learned from d island. forces in the Caribbean with close ties with the For the most part, according to the SPOTLIGHTS sources, the missiles arsenal that was supposedly represent the bulk of the Soviet nuclear-tippe- d anti-Cast- ro Red-hel- te removed" from Cuba during the so-call- ed Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Something About ' To Pop in Cuba EXCLUSIVE TO arOTUGHT By Peggy Poor With Iran still unresolved, is the Caribbean scheduled for the next crisis? Is something about to pop" in Cuba7 At the end of November, inside the Crystal Ballroom of Miamis Intercontinental Hotel, U.S. diplomatic troubleshooter" Philip C. Habib ventured beyond the State Departments usual tired and timorous platitudes to denounce Cubas adventurism" in the Caribbean. Cuban exiles joined Outside the hotel, placard-carryin- g Jamaicans to protest the presence at this Third Annual Conference on the Caribbean of Castros puppet, Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley. Meanwhile, up on Washingtons Capitol Hill, states assistant secretary, Viron Vaky, was even more daring than Habib. He called the Caribbean situation explosive." But then, he was asking for money, taxpayers money. MIAMI anti-commun- ist . SOVIET STRONGHOLD And down 90 miles the Gulf Stream from Floridas tip, where Key West Map pinpoints approximate locations of main Soviet missile bases which hai military forces are being beefed up, usually reliable exile sources reported that feeds you until after dinner, and entirely by Soviet troops with Manley wants U.S. taxpayers to pick up the check. Cuban coastal defenses are now manned sophisticated sensing devices and Manley has weapons. Similar sources place Soviet military strength on the island at 41,000. Other exile groups have followed the lead of Brigade 2506, veterans of the Bay of Pigs, in intensive recruitment drives, over 18, open to all female and male, Anglo" as well as Latin." The exile community is in a fever of renewed excitement over talk of insurrection against Castro. anti-communi- Strangely, financing appears no arise of backing from an "Anglo millionaire." Anglo usually means North American. CARIBBEAN EXPLOSIVE MICHAEL MANLEY promote private investment in the Habibs Miami speech was supposed to "keynote" the conference, but none of his No one knowledgeable about the the other speakers picked up theme. This was not surprising area denies that the situation in the all invited by the Caribbean is indeed "explosive." But because most of them, either already in Carter administration gestures and State Department, were Soviet-Castro or gravitating toward the proposals for meeting it appear about as orbit. skillful as the "unpolicy" in Iran which led to the hostage seizure. SPEARHEAD JAMAICA-R- ED Picketers outside the Intercontinental Featured guest and banquet speaker grasped that wry analogy, chanting st Ayatollah Manley! Ayatollah Manley, of course, denied bring or Manleyl". just as his mentor Wise to the clout of the Cuban vote, Fidel Castro had done when still the the officials most local and state ignored darling "Robin Hood" of the New York conference, except Puerto Rican-bor- n "Times" and its fawning followers. Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre, an Besides, it is wiser not to bite the hand announced Carter supporter. anti-Cast- ro anti-We- anti-Americ- an, dollars. $150 MILLION AID repeatedly unsuccessful pilgrimages to Moscow to beg for a Soviet dole such as his master, Fidel, enjoys. Trade overtures and loan requests to Soviet satellites have been equally dismal. When he took over in 1972, Manley inherited a treasury surplus of SS6 million, but his budget has been in crisis ever since and there have been no major private U.S. investments. He is surviving on handouts from the International Monetary Fund, most of which, of course, come from U.S. taxpayers. Thus, the State Departments star billing of Manley at a conference to sts problem. As always, it is difficult to winnow hard fact from Latin machismo and elaboration, but rumors repeatedly made all delighted with his mention of Yankee Caribbean has grim irony. But it may not be funny for the taxpayer. According to intelligence reports, Manleys beautiful island is now crawling with agents of the Soviet KGB and from Cuba's DGI. The former DGI chief, Ulises Estrada, is now Fidels ambassador at Kingston, Jamaica. Estrada is reportedly organizing Jamaica as the English-speakin- g "subversion of the capital" Caribbean, as Cuba has served at the Spanish-speakin- g hub for of spread communism throughout Latin America. Nor was Manley the only delegate holding his plate out for U.S. taxpayers to fill. Although conferees ignored Habibs keynote attack against Cuba, they were Habibs figure of S150 million for aid to Caribbean and Central American lands in 1980 was even bigger than the $135 million Vaky requested from Congress. But the real shock is in the breakdown. Seventy-fiv- e million dollars would be earmarked for Castros satellite Nicaragua, which right now is openly threatening yet another Central American "domino," Honduras. In other words, while State Department officials are denouncing "Cubas adventurism with their mouths, their hands would dole out the taxpayers money to finance it. Is the hand quicker than the mouth? KIDS TO BE LIQUIDATED According to Radio Havana, more than a thousand "teachers" on a "cultural and revolutionary mission" from Cuba have been in Nicaragua since The entire Nicaragua cabinet, including deputies, has resigned so that "this attitude of authentic revolutionary spirit leaves the junta free mid-Novemb- er. to confirm, substitute or relocate according to convenience and necessities of the Sandinista revolutionary process" (a communist way of saying totalitarian H a |
