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Type Of Units UncIear

the next few days.
What types Of units the Rus
slams have established in Cuba
was not clear yesterday, Off
cials said.
One prospect is that the So
vietSUnion has set up new COM
munications centers in caves
where Cuban refugees report
missiles have been secreted
Unofficial information was that
Soviet personnel had doubled
the populations of some Cuban
mountain villages in the areas
where caves are known to exist
Other Soviet military units
may be establishing supply CEN
ters. One official speculated the
Soviet military men may be
forming a kind Of "all-Russiar
brigade" but declined to guess
what its mission might be.
The administration is under.
stood to regard any non -hemis-
phere military unit in Cuba
which is not engaged in train
ing as a threat to the peace
under the terms of the Ric
Treaty.
Not as Serious as Missiles
Presence of Soviet military
units is not regarded by Off
cial Washington as a problem
Of the same degree of gravity
as the medium range missiles
which were discovered last
month.
Persuading the Soviet Unior
to remove the IL-28 bombers /;
said to have higher priority or
President Kennedy's list Of re.
quirements for settling the Gu
ban crisis.
But a strong, public move
against these Soviet military
units would serve to underscore
in yet another way the Presi-
dents earneStnesS in demand.
ing withdrawal Of the bomber;
and effective international in.
spection Of Cuba.
The Federal Bureau of In.
vestigation's arrest of three Gu.
bans on sabotage charges ir
New York yesterday was an
other sign of growing United
States impatience for a settle
ment of the Cuban problem.
Seen as offensive" Force
The presence Of organized
Soviet military units in Cuba
would be treated as a new sit
uation not covered by the Ken
nedy Khrushchev agreements
of october 27-28.
The fact that officials now
are treating the military group
ingS as possible threats to the
peace indicated they would be
regarded as an Offensive
rather than defensive" force
and thus would be required to
be removed from Cuba.
Consideration is also being
given to tightening the still
operative United States naval
quarantine of Cuba, perhaps to
prevent petroleum shipments
without which a great deal OF
the military potential in Cubs
could not function. Fuel for the
jet bombers and fighters pro.
vided by the Soviet Union woulC
also be cut off.
Soviet Deputy Premier Miko'
yan's mission to Havans
stretched into its third weel
yesterday. American official.
first expected he would stay
only three or four days, anc
more recently expected him tt
return to New York Friday.
His plane was reported tc
be checked out for flight ano
standing by at Havana airport
yesterday. What he has beer
doing is a mystery to Ameri-
can officials.
Backing CastrO's Demand
He has backed Premier Cas-
tro's demand that the United
States withdraw from the
Guantanamo naval base as g
price for removal Of the IL-2S
bombers. Mr.. Mikoyan has also
backed other Castro protests
against alleged United States
violations Of Cuban sovereignty
Secret correspondence be.
tween President Kennedy anc
Premier Khrushchev reportedly
is continuing. 1t is held Sc
closely that most of the Officers
dealing with the Cuban crisis
on a day-to-day basis do moi
know the contents of the letter
exchanges.
Another phase of the negotia-
tions has been carried on under
loose United Nations sponsor
ship in New York. The Acting
Secretary General has met fire.
quently with Soviet Deputy
Foreign Minister Kuznetsov ano
the American team of Ambas-
sador Adlai Stevenson and
trouble shooter John j. McCloy
The Americans and Soviet ne
gotiators have met separately
but made little headwav