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PAGE 6—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S.C., Thursday, April 20, 1967 SENATOR STRO HURMOND Reports PEOPLE THE CHICKENS IN CUBA Recent hearings before the Senate Interna) Security Sub committee indicate that the So viet Union is continuing to maintain Cuba as an armed camp, bristling with missiles which threaten the security of the United States and the peace of the world. The situation re calls the warnings which I issued early in January, 1962 and which the same Subcom mittee aired, months before the Administration reluctantly agreed that intelligence experts possessed “hard” evidence of a Soviet build-up. The delay in acknowledging Soviet penetration of this hem isphere brought on the critical confrontation between the U.S and the U.S.o.R which has come to be known as the “mis sile crisis.By allowing the So viet build-up in Cuba to contin ue to significant levels, unim peded, the Administration lost control of the situation, and brought the world to the brink of war U.S. BACKED DOWN The result was that the U.S. had to back down from the ex plosive tension. The U.S., as subsequent events have shown, agreed in effect to guarantee the sanctity of Cuba as a com munist bastion in the Carib bean We did nothing to coun teract U Thant’s subtle instruc tions to Castro to refuse inter national inspection of the mis sile sites There has never been any convincing evidence that the Soviet missiles were re moved by the Soviet Union. The Cuban confrontation must be regarded as having ended in a Soviet tactical vic tory. In the past five years, the So viets have solidified that vic tory, and made gains Accord ing to the testimony of sworn witnesses. Cuba today nc longer exists as an independ ent nation Castro remains as a fiery, but powerless, leader symbolizing the “revolution." SOVIET CUBA But the experts testifying be fore the Subcommittee say that Cuba today Is run by the Soviet military commanders on the is land The Soviets control the economy They control the armed forces, and the fleets of so-called “fishing boats.” They train and export up to 10.000 guerrillas a yeai for the en couragement ot subversior throughout Latin America. Cuba Itself Is a rocky for tress Its natural cave forma tions have been widely inter connected with man-made tun nels and reinforced with con crete One tunnel is reported to be large enough to transport 100-foot missiles for 45 miles underground Missile sites and defense installations are said tc be located near the entrances to various tunnels. A “CHICKEN FARM” Witnesses described hidden aircraft hangers, burrowed intc the hillside Ballistic missiles ol at least intermediate range are reported as having been moved about under cover of darkness, with whole sections of cities systematically blacked out to obscure the movement. So phisticated radar and guidance systems are said to have blos somed at strategic locations. A witness told of one underground installation at Camaguey con cealed by a chicken farm. Yet the Administration, de luded by a spirit of “detente” with communism, refuses to take these reports seriously. In 1962, it will be recalled, the traditional “soft” but reliable techniques of intelligence gath ering were rejected in favor of more difficult photographic and electronic techniques. Today these “hard” techniques are even more refined. The U.S. possesses the capability to check the testimony given to the Subcommittee. Old U-2 photographs can be compared with new photos made by satellite. It would be easy to discover the cave en trances reported by so many eye-witnesses from Cuba, since detailed locations have been cited New antennas and towers would be immediately obvious. The locations of roads and approaches to underground installations could be checked. U.S. radar detection systems could verify the statements about a new Soviet-built radar system in Cuba. Last month Secretary of State Dean Rusk announced that the U.S has devices which can detect nuclear warheads in a space vehicle The Depart ment of Defense should be asked if these sensitive devices have the capability to check on whether there are Soviet nu clear warheads stored in Cuba. But the problem is that the Administration does not want to believe in a Soviet build-up In Cuba. In 1962, intelligence experts had to operate under an official policy guideline which contended that it was against the Soviets’ own inter est to introduce missiles in Cu ba The same wishful thinking prevails today. At the meeting of Western Kemisphere heads of State at Punta del Esta, Uruguay, the No 1 problem, Cuba, was not even on the agenda Neverthe less. the time hat come to find out whether that chicken farm in Camaguey is filled with “mis sile crisis” chickens that have comr home to roost THE M ANION FORUM By MARILYN MANION SOUTH OF THE BORDER REVISITED The attention of the Ameri can public has long been focus ed on Viet Nam. Recently, how ever, we have been forced to crane our necks and look the other way—at the Soviet Un ion. We watch, on the one hand the Soviets’ continued active support of our enemy in Viet Nam. On the other, we see our government building ‘bridges to the East’ in an effort to be friendly with our enemy’s as sistants. And now our swiftly turning direction. South, to Latin Am- heads must look in yet another area, where President Johnson is headed, at this writing, for an inter-American summit con ference. As usual, one of the main items on the agenda is a proposed increase in U. S. foreign aid to Latin nations. And—as usual—no item which is not scheduled for the agenda Is the problem of Communist Cuba. Discussion of Latin matters will cover poverty, lack of suit able economic growth, argu ments for land reform, and the need for diversification of one-crop economics. All of thesg matters would be academic, to say the least, if some or all of the Latin countries were taken over by the Communists. And at the moment, such takeovers are more probable than impossible. Guerrillas are at work in Bo livia, Guatemala, and Venezula, PROPERTY TRANSFERS Of Newberry No. 1 Carol M. Hipp to City Newberry, 8.338 acres 5. Ernest H. Layton to Julia Gary and Charles B. Burton, one lot and one building, prem ises and assumption of mort gage, $5. Newberry College to Rita H. Price, two lots in Coateswood, $5,00. Sue P. Perrin to Robert D. Porter, one lot and one build ing (Smiley Porter property) $5 love and affection. Wyatt L. Moates to Paul E. Moates .58 acre $5. Newberry No. 1 Outside Newberry College to Contract Carriers, Inc., 3.4 acres $5. Mrs. Tom Perry, left, presents money for hospital ex- Edgar Dominick and Lula B. penses to Frankie Wicker and Mrs. W. D. Shealy, Jr. Dominick to Charles W. Domi- secretary-treasurer of Boys Farm. nick and Brenda B. Dominick, Newberry County child who * 64 acr ?'^ * ove affection, underwent surgery at Newber- Suyerstreet No. 2 ry County Memorial hospital J* Wesson to Ray Hartley prior to Easter. an J Mable G. Hartley, one lot, Other projects of the C. B. $81>0. # Radio Club since its inception Whitmire No. 4 have been a dance which they Stephen R. DuBose and Doro- sponsored to benefit the Boys thy D. DuBose to James L. Farm, a float which was made Hartman and Cleo B. Hartman, by the club to be entered in one l°t and one building $10,- the Christmas parade in New- berry, and the purchase of Whitmire No. 4 Outside boots for each of the Boys L. J. King to Frank King, 9 Farm boys as a Christmas pre- acres $10. aen t Daisy Belle Lane Cureton to The Club has taken Boys Stuart Wagner, one lot and Farm as a group project, hav- one building $400. ing made a thorough study of Pomaria No. 5 the work of the home and Harry O. Kibler to Donnie having realized that the home Jeffries and Nellie Irene Jef- is not supported by any state, fries, one lot $1000. local, or federal government Little Mountain No. 6 organizations. The members C. Amick Sr. to to Jerry feel that as a group they can M. Alewine, et al, three acres, help with the work being done love and affection, by Boys Farm to meet the Charles A. Stewart to Wil- needs of disadvantaged boys, fred I. Steele and Coreen C. The current project of the Steel,, one lot and one building Club is the sponsoring of a C.B. $5*00. Radio Jamboree to be held in E. T. Nelson to Maude E. Newberry at the Fair Grounds Nelson, two lots $3500. on May 27 and 28. Tickets are Prosperity No. 7 now on sale and can be purch- M. C. Amick Sr. to Amos F. ased for $1 from any member Glass, one lot $5. of the club. Many valuable Charles L. Green to Percy prizes will be given away at E. Morris and Catherine Mor- the drawings to be held con- ris, one lot $5. tinuously thruout the jamboree. Groups will, be coming from all over the state and from other states to attend the jam boree, and good entertainment Friendly club helps needy The Friendly CB Radio Club, composed of members from Newberry and the surrounding areas, has taken as its most recent project the collection of funds to pay the hospital ex penses of a child at Boys Farm. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Perry spear headed the campaign to raise the money for the project. Do nations were made by members of the CB Radio Club as well as many other interested New- berrians. A total of 92 persons made donations to the fund. Mrs. Perry, secretary-treasur er of the Club, made the pre sentation of the money to the Boys Farm to meet the ex penses of Frankie Wicker, a to name a few. Wrote Pames Reston in a recent isue of the New York Times: “Last month in Mexico City I was told that the Mexican government had caught the Secretary of the Cuban Em bassy passing 6,000 cruzeiros to agents of the Guatemalain communist rebels and had inter cepted shipments of arms from Cuba to the guerrillas.” Cuba is now exporting sub version and some conventional arms. There is evidence that she can export more violent sorts of war equipment—such as missiles aimed at vulner able targets. Remember 1962? Early in that year, various individuals in this country-—Cuban exiles and United States Senators among them—warned that a missile buildup was taking place in Cu ba. Those warnings were pooh pooed by official Washington. After many months of denials, President Kennedy admitted that the build-up did exist. In what is now recalled as an historic confrontation, Ken nedy forced Premier Khrush chev to promise immediate re moval of the missiles. It was rumored at the time that Kennedy, in return for the promise, pledged that the United States would not in vade Cuba, and that she would prevent any other nation from such invasion. There has never been any proof that Khrushchev kept his promise. Although U Thant and Castro participated in num erous discussions., Castro did not allow any on-site inspec tion of the “removal.” Since 1962, repeated reports have indicated that the missiles sites are still there. Some intellig ence sources even contend that additional missiles have been imported to Cuba since the 1962 crisis. Havana radio has organized a plan for student strikes all over Latin America during the summit meeting. The Reds plan a general campaign to object to the conference. Rather than give these strikers and pro testers the benefit of the doubt President Johnson and all of the delegates ought to ponder what the future CAN really hold as long as the Reds have a foothold in Latin America. is being planned. Proceeds from the affair will be used by the Club to sponsor additional pro jects for Boys Farm. NOW’S THE TIME TO REMODEL— REPAIR YOUR HOME HERE’S THE PLACE TO GET FUNDS • Promptly • Economically • Conveniently “An Insured Savings Institution” i^suf §'i Building & Loan Association 1117 Boyce Street Newberry, S. C. Dial 276-5660 Ralph B. Baker Louis C. Floyd R. Aubrey Harley Pinckney N. Abrams Thomas H. Pope