-DATE- 19840406 -YEAR- 1984 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- INTERVIEW -AUTHOR- F. CASTRO -HEADLINE- CASTRO COMMENTS ON FRENCH TELEVISION -PLACE- CUBA -SOURCE- MANAGUA DOMESTIC SVC -REPORT_NBR- FBIS -REPORT_DATE- 19840410 -TEXT- FIDEL CASTRO COMMENTS ON FRENCH TELEVISION CITED PA061729 Managua Domestic Service in Spanish 1544 GMT 6 Apr 84 [Text] Cuban President Fidel Castro Ruiz today said in Paris that the Nicaraguan ports are being mined with highly sophisticated weapons through the direct utilization of specialized CIA ships and equipment. In an interview for Channel 1 of French television, reproduced by INTERPRESS SERVICE and AFP, Commander Fidel Castro Ruiz said that the counterrevolutionary bands are the screen for a major U.S. Government plan to destabilize the Nicaraguan Government. The mining of ports is inconceivable in times of peace and adds up to the escalation of attacks by the Reagan administration to destroy Nicaraguan economic resources, particularly agriculture, which has virtually resulted in a blockade of the country, Commander Fidel Castro added. Castro urged the international community to react in the face of U.S. policy in Central America, particularly by encouraging the desire for a peaceful solution to the crisis in the region, as expressed by the Nicaraguan Government and the Salvadoran revolutionary movement. Nicaragua is being attacked from Honduras on the northern borden and from Costa Rica in the south by the bands armed, financed, and organized by the United States, Castro asserted. I know the Nicaraguan people very well, I know of their traditional fighting spirit and their strong nationalistic feeling, and I'm sure that they will defeat the aggressor in the long run, Fidel Castro pointed out. He also noted that if Reagan is reelected, the Cuban and Central American peoples should expect no improvement in their relations with the United States. He added that relations between Havana and Washington were bad before the invasion of Grenada but that the criminal intervention and surprise attack -- following the Pearl Harbor and Nazi styles -- against this small Caribbean island further aggravated them. He recalled that several Cubans died during the invasion of Grenada. There's always danger of a U.S. attack against Cuba, and therefore we have never and will never lower our guard, as all our people are determined to make the aggressor pay a high price, and if they dare attack us, they will lose here, as they did in Vietnam, Fidel Castro concluded. -END-