Evening star., 1962-01-30

OAOs 4Vo SouA 90 40 90 ~ oS@S W.
sweep back and forth along tht
windy beach of this fashion
able summer resort.
In the morning optimism
surges through the halls anc
the lobbies of the gaunt Sar
Eaefael Hotel, where delegates
spend most OF their waking
hours. Today will be the deci-
sive day, they tell anyone within
listening distance.
But within hours, as the
negotiations continue, the opti-
mism ebbs and pessimism moves
in. Rumors and counter-rumors
cancel each other out, leaving
nothing but frayed nerves and
rising tempers.
Evening LetdOwn
When the time for stocktak-
ing arrives in the late evening
hours, it becomes obvious that
the conference is right back
where it was in the morning
Tired and irritable, the dele
gates tell themselves tomorrow
will be the decisive day.
This routine has given con-
ference a mock HOLLYWOOD at
mosphere. Long parleys take
place in the mezzanine caucus
room behind transparent glass
doors besieged by crowds of
newspapermen from all over
the hemisphere.
Let one foreign minister stir
from his place at the green
felt table and the Klieg lights
flash on and a buzz of antici-
patton spreads across the wait
ing hordes. Word is relayed
over a wooden balcony to the
open lobby. Conversation stops,
drinks are left on the bar, and
there is a mad rush up the
narrow stairway to the mez-
canine.
Busy Night
This exercise was repeated
time and again for almost eight
hours last night while Secre-
tary Of State Rusk conferred
vainly with other foreign min
listers in an effort to achieve
a compromise that would win
the grand prize - unanimity
During the recesses one diplo-
mat after another visibly
braced himself and then made
the quick run downstairs and
back through the hundred in
sistant but unsatisfied ques-
TONERS on the race course.
But despite all this activity,
the deadlock remained as OF
this morning. Central unre-
solved question is: How to de-
wise an acceptable formula for
expelling the Castro govern
ment from the organs Of the
Organization Of merican
States.
With all the patience Of a
Solomon, Mr.. Rusk is deter
mined to get more than simple
numerial two-thirds majority
IA nations-necessary for de-
cision.
The big development yester-
day was the gathering evidence
that the United States can
swing a minimum majority of
the ministers. The signs came
with the return of recalcitrant
Haiti to the Urited States fold
and an Uruguayan resolution
on expulsion only slightly
weaker than the strong resolu-
tion inspired by Colombia and
sponsored by IL states.
The Colombia resolution
would exclude Cuba immedi-
ately at this meeting, while
the Uruguayan would instruct
the OAS council to find ways
for carrying out exclusion in
the days ahead.
The differences between
these two drafts are so fihe as
to take discussion over their re-
moval into the realm of hair
splitting. United States sources
say they are confidence bridge
can be built"
Important Hold0uts
The problem is that hold-outs
include most important coun-
tries of Latin America-Ar-
gentina, Brazil and Mexico.
They are joined in varying de-
grees by Ecuador, Bolivia and
Chile.
The long meeting sponsored
by Mr.. RuSk last evening sym.
bolized how conference has now
divided into distinguishable
blocs. On one side conference
table sat the hard" group
United States, Colombia, Vene.
zuela and Guatemala. On othel
side sat the soft" group-Ar'
gentina, Brazil, Chile and Mex
leo.
The soft group takes the ira
ditional legal" approach tt
the question. They say tina
before any action on the ex
pulsion of Cuba there must b.
a full investigation by a sub
committee Of four OAS coun
Gil in Washington. and thel
another full-dress inter-Ameri
can conference to make tn
final decisions.
The hard group takes NOR
pragmatic approach. It main
tains that membership in tn
hemisphere club is not a righ
given by geography, it is base,
upon certain democratic prin'
ciples which Cuba no longe
expouses, even by word.
Delay Feared
But the United States desir
for action here has more thal
that consideration behind il
Nffinia1c COW thot do1ov in av