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However, in weekly broadcasts Castro continually threatened to sink the American aircraft carriers if the United States should provoke him again. The threat was not taken too seriously though President Jarrett kept two carrier groups in the Gulf of Mexico. The carrier air wings had remained on five-minute alert, with an airborne two-fighter BARCAP, for three weeks. At that point, having had only one uneventful MiG encounter, the president had elected to stand down from the alert five status and operate at normal tempo.

Fidel Castro stubbornly refused to agree to any restitution agreement. He renewed his pledge to perfect a single Leninist party in the Western hemisphere based on the principles of centralism. The last chapter in his reign of terror was only pages away.