It was one of those late-at-night talkathons in Havana, and Fidel Castro sat toying with a popgun that shot pingpong balls. "We are the only judge of what is right for our defense," he told the visiting reporter. "I said this to Mikoyan when he was sent by Khrushchev." Castro laughed, and added: "If Khrushchev had come himself. I would have punched him."
The bearded Cuban talked on for seven hours to Claude Julien. 37. foreign news chief of Paris' influential Le Monde. When Julien published the interview last week, it stirred a missile crisis all its own in Havana. Fidel might...
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