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CUBA SAYS U.S. IS SEEKING TO BREAK RELATIONS AND HEIGHTEN AGGRESSIONS.

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Cuba, in the person of President Fidel Castro, has looked upon recent US diplomatic behavior on and toward the island and sees in it a strategy to force a rupture in relations. High on the list of provocations is an illuminated electronic sign along the fifth floor of the US Interests Section building in Havana that blinks out what the US has termed "human rights messages." Among the messages have been excerpts from the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, and Lincoln, and some news items, all in big red letters.

Castro denounced the flashing sign as "grossly outrageous," especially coming from a country "that every day tortures, murders, and commits acts of genocide." In a diplomatic note to Washington, he demanded it be taken down. The note brought the reply from the State Department that the sign did not violate a 1961 Vienna Convention on diplomatic relationships because the screen was inside the building.

Fidel rejoined, "Then can you shoot a bazooka or launch a nuclear device from that building so that it explodes in the Havana tunnel?"

Cuba has been through this kind of show from the US before and, in the last encounter, had the high ground. When the US put up Christmas decorations last year...

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