At 0604 GMT, France became the world's fourth nuclear power, when it successfully exploded an atomic bomb near Reggane, at Algeria in the Sahara Desert.
Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan of the Soviet Union and Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro signed an agreement that guaranteed the Castro government a $100,000,000 line of credit until 1972, and provided that the Soviets would buy one million tons of Cuban sugar per year for five years [REF].