The Invasion of Cuba

...But all previously positioned nets under the Why should they balk now...

...It was all sibilities are endless for both the great, as the loonies at Langley do not...

...F. Scott Fitzgerald's sensibiland then up the Mississippi, and of steaks...

...A Boston re- his combat artist, Frederick Remington, you can see in the late middle of Godporter fled the scene some years ago in- "you provide the pictures, I'll provide father IL We know so little of the Mafia's sisting that he could not be comfortable the war...

...it has always change has been rapid and where all are by New England or California or been available...

...They are given to brilliant starts, and there...

...Some people got Kwakiutl Indian custom of the potlatch along, say, Fire Island, and baffle the killed here and there, of course, and the as foreign policy and offhand I can't Boches...

...For many, not to an elite, as T.S...

...It isn't really that Mafia to cut the crap game and the Minnesota evokes strong reactions...

...What the marines' Cuba in- the 360 degrees of non-Germans around Anyway, none of these little lunacies vasion did was to resurrect the old them, the Army can sweep ashore all did us any serious harm...

...Those rollers who might be subject to business it is to comment on the national were the heady days of the Rough Riders blackmail...

...eternal preppies off the street where their potlatch the host would demonstrate his Nor need this daring innovation repotential for doing harm was incalcula- wealth and his insouciance by throwing a main an American monopoly...

...You can't or stay home and hear Hitler on the Marthe CIA has been doing its Rover Boys ignore it...

...You certainly Then the military, blessed, cut through choose the most ridiculous strike the can't ignore that...

...nesota that "culture" belongs to the and great effects, but they seem to diMinnesota has surely shaped us...

...In the his- I love it, but I do not hold it sacred, perience...

...It was as if they began writes that Minnesota has learned to plunderers of a continent...

...California may be an idea...

...what appeared to have been a tri-partite with a mythology...

...fact that the stories passed down to me sheepskin-lined coats (Oh yes, Min- made its small towns a byword for were all about the journey down the nesota winters are cold), drank "dish- bigotry, narrowness, materialism and Great Lakes and the rivers of Wisconsin pan sized" martinis and ate platter-sized hypocrisy...

...It seems to me any homeland-is risky...

...one thing, enormous...

...The reflections men since it was they who became school that this is a pre-condition for the kind of of any one writer needs the correction of teachers while the men carried on with unity of which the pope spoke to us- "a others-not in the sense of denying my the family farm or business...

...invadingtout Pacifica with troops instead ous but there's a case to be made that a For those of you who have come late to of just industrial products, the Pentagon superpower ought to look ridiculous American Indian studies, I ought to ex- can lay on a surprise landing at Malibu from time to time...

...scene that, outside of Texas, it is the most charging-on foot-up San Juan Hill That ended, of course, when Castro chauvinistic of states...

...Cuba against Spain...

...Its early settlement took place during two centuries when rivers were at once bar- TAE INVASION OF CUBA riers and paths of travel...

...If death comes a playpen for the kiddies and went some 3000 killer Cossacks in Cuba, to Tito, as it must to all men, instead of grown-up with the invasion by the ready to strike without warning at the moving over the mountains toward Belmarines...

...spokesman actually spoke, to avoid the Pigs with its still-astounding assumption When attention is paid-which, I must chance of soldiers getting hurt by doing it that given a choice the Cuban people say, wasn't done much by the rest of the in the dark, our troops moved relentlessly would turn on Castro and rally 'round press-that elaborate, expensive and to- in toward Guantanamo, leapt into the Howard Hunt and his Watergate weird- tally successful invasion of Cuba turns waves, hit the beaches, took positions, os...

...Min- came out of our war of liberation for lowing Batista to be a big cheese, the nesota is definitely a place...

...It is the tradition in Min- well...

...It preserves some plain the potlatch...

...It's big, for like one of those autumnal weekends in they are mysteriously called, powers...

...I know that my sense ficult poetry and thirteen thousand turned (once a white knight), Judy Garland and of being a woman, of being Catholic, of out to hear him...

...As the effusions A BREAKTHROUGH IN WARFARE of many nineteenth century eastern writers bear witness, its natural beauty was I DON'T KNOW about you, but I go Cuban-American relations...

...version of Yakov's elexir formulated to indeed, any superpower foreign policy, The possibilities of this potlatch posse make El Supremo's beard fall out, thus, since Senator George Aiken (Rep.- are endless...

...In and the unity which forms a universal other states, is a geographic entity...

...Alabama...

...At the sitivity...

...There was hawing...

...Until we destroyed the and Catalina, the ancient goals of the sense of proportion...

...The could even land in Kwakiutl land itself in information, which clearly any J-school name has nothing to do with the English a rare demonstration of historical sengraduate could do better, but to keep the meaning of either of its syllables...

...Somehow, we've never gotten reaction that there may not have been any in a place where huge men clad in back to that high romantic level of at all, just a sophisticated acceptance that Commonweal: 648 sometimes you lose...

...Min- And yet Minnesota's best known writ- try from the many not united by blood, nesota, it seems to me, more than many ers do not give a good report of it...

...If the Germans, for according to CIA thinking, so to speak, Vermont) suggested we declare our- instance-should one say, when the causing the Cubans to throw him out and selves the winners in Vietnam and clear Germans?-recreate themselves as a demand that Richard Helms come to rule out some four or five years before we did whole nation and begin again to threaten o'er them...

...I much of a drink but it is certainly the best agency to tap in on any American high have been told by one of those whose thing you can do with Coca Cola...

...Eliot dis- minish with time...

...revealed by Senator Frank Church as Finland, do a U-turn, steam back in and Abruptly, however, Cuba ceased to be having placed a "combat brigade" of seize the Summer Palace...

...The Rusble...

...his own, the Soviets, instead of invading games and not playing games on the rest The dread Russians had been fearlessly Prague, may steam out into the Gulf of of us...

...ped and their houses broken into...

...If the Japanese once more begin United States invariably looked ridicul- think of a better model...

...Its southern quarter is formed by the Minnesota and its tributaries...

...The United States military may Nixon-Rebozo Memorial Park in Key grade, the Russians, following our be incompetent and over-paid, as its Biscayne...

...demanding unity" which forms a counreality but of offering their own...

...folk balladeers sang, I've always assumed, without really alliance of him, the CIA and the Mafia to "Come to Minnesota, the glory of the knowing, that the name and the drink run brothels and casinos in Havana, alWest...

...For years we legendary during the years of exploration back to when Cuba Libre was a rum supported the military dictator Batista in and settlement...

...The woman's struggle, things seem possible...

...For these and other it all...

...the Pentagon does something, attention light for their cameras-and, a marine Most observers would back the Bay of must be paid...

...One can document this good or ill it is for us forever the measure covered when he came to read his dif- in lives as various as those of Stassen of all other places...

...dawn and occupy the Crimea...

...was, you will recall, a Renaissance in every particular of the arms race, There has been the occasional spillover, Roman papal candidate who elec- matching us step by step in the Kwakiutl with people poigoned by that alchemist tioneered by throwing gold dinner plates fashion of throwing more and more and journalists having their phones tap- into the Tiber, but the wily Papabilo had money into the sea of arms expenditures...

...Odds are that doesn't put that red ink on the bal- water and recovered the glitteries to dine they won't...

...Hard decisions...

...On balance, you have to admit the lot of valuable objects into the sea...

...process, grew out of the Minnesota ex- attention to practical change...

...number with Cuba ever since...

...Croix, and the Mississippi on the east, the Pigeon, the Rainy (and the Of several minds: Frank Getlein border lakes) on the north, the Red River to the west...

...It's like an mid-late thirties: should we take in a flick FRANK GETLEIN 23 November 1979: 649...

...And I To generalize about Minnesota-or women were better-educated than the extend that to America...

...there seems to be more Minnesota is part of me-but only a part...

...by another that it is and William Randolph Hearst advising came out of the hills and took over, as the most pleasure-loving...

...You recall the circs...

...ABIGAIL McCARTHY bounded on almost all sides by riversby the St...

...After a three- or four-hour delay to fun-loving lads at Langley have mounted reasons too numerous to mention, when allow network television crews better against the Red Terror of the Caribbean...

...It was left for those of ways clean), and that it has a great variety disastrous inner conflict...

...They come from a matrix of being American, are conditioned by the Minnesotans tend to take educational simplicity and dreams-where social Minnesota experience, as those of others opportunity for granted...

...us in the succeeding generations to and high level of theater, music and all Minnesota's most talented achievers, search out the heritage "beyond the wa- the performing arts available to almost all like Fitzgerald, do not seem to transplant ter" and the far-flung family spread here of its citizens...

...In short, we invaded house alchemists whip up an updated thing that happened to American policy, ourselves, quite possibly an historic first...

...Once they grasp exactly what ance sheet to offset the enormous social again...

...Bob Dylan...

...we did at Guantanamo, they'll do good of keeping a couple of generations So did we, more or less, when we likewise...

...The posdoes have to be taken seriously in ways Strong statements were issued...

...Longfellow provided it and Coca Cola with a slice of lime...

...Less sophisticated, elephant in the living room...

...In such an eventuality, we Corps: the point wasn't actually to gather one another called the potlatch...

...exactly that...

...tory of many Minnesota families the except as all things are sacred...

...It is Main Street and Babbitt Sinclair Lewis church...

...The Kwakiutl did it for keeps...

...Yet Wolf von Eckhardt, ity was always flawed by the superficial homesteading on the bluffs overlooking Washington-based critic of urban art, values of the Minnesota rich, heirs to the the Mississippi...

...His assent to life with the journey and the adventure make its cities beautiful (they were al- and dissent from, those values set up his and the new home...

...One gradually culture of the area, the Pacific Northwest Vietcong which, somehow, they've realized that the CIA was like the Peace Indians used to throw great parties for never made...

...For another, it has, literally, the coni...

...example, may come in on a Black Sea leaders never tire of demonstrating, but it There was hemming...

...Difficult days...

...My understanding of commu- although not essentially different, does I think of all these things and think that nity, of education, of political order and not seem so dire...

...It is hard to power to destroy us all...

...The next time, for example, a of people like Allen Dulles, James Ang- charged ashore at Guantanamo those Czech playwright announces his soul is leton, Helms and Hunt playing their own short weeks ago...

...Personally I'm inclined toward the out to be a turn in a new direction, one lost not a man, showed the Soviets what a one where the spy masters had their loaded with potential for being the best free nation can do...

...There sians, after all, have faithfully copied us Agency has act;omplished that aim...

...The Republic was in danger...