Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-29

CHA and other Government
"meddling" in the Cuban effort
to liberate the island. They said
that the only answer has be-
come independent invasions
and independent revolts within
Cuba.
The question here is how
far such activity is now pos
ible after the guarantee against
invasion which Mr.. Kennedy
has given Mr.. KhruShchev.
In the first place, Cuban ex-
lies in closest contact with their
homeland fear that the Ken
nedy pledge will have a de-
moralizing effect on the island.
They said that Cubans are
liable to accept the United
States pledge of no invasion as
a guarantee of the Castro re-
gime.
In the second place, they
wondered whether Mr.. Kennedy
has not tied his hands in case
any revolt does erupt inside
Cuba. The current chaotic
economic state and possibility of
steady loss of Soviet aid to
the regime once the bases are
strapped could we'll lead to total
collapse in the future.
Another Hungary
In such a case, these exiles
fear that the United States
would be faced with another
Hungarian situation" Be-
cause of the Kennedy pledge
not to invade, the Cuban pat
riots could well be forced to
take on the Castro police force
single handedly.
In contrast to this pessimism
United States officials and
Latin American diplomats en-
phasized the more optimistic
side Of the Cuban picture.
1t is the almost universal be-
lief in these circles that the
past week of crisis has de-
stroyed F1del Castro as the
bogeyman of Latin America.
He has lost his glamour as a
nationalist" idol and been I'M
masked as nothing more than
a puppet dangling on the end
Of Mr.. Khrushchev's string.
Diplomats point to the way
Mr.. Khrushchev went over Mr..
Castro's head to deal with Pres
ident Kennedy on the missile
base, and Mr.. Khrushchev's
frank admission that those bases
remained totally under Soviet
military control on Cuban ter
ritory.
Salvage Something
The five demands Mr.. Castro
made on the United States yes
MISUNDERSTANDING the evacua-
ton Of Guantanamo naval base
- are generally regarded as
his desperate attempt to sal
wage some benefit from a Soviet
United States agreement in
which he had no part.
United States officials tended
to dismiss these demands as
"whistling in the dark" which
Russia will never support.
But these officials also saw
certain dangers in. Mr.. Castro's
humiliation. The Cuban dicta-
tor is above all a supreme ego
fist. And they speculated that
his humiliation may well begetI
desperation and desperation
can well beget rash acts.
Signs of desperation also ap-
peared in new Communist ter
rorist activity in South Ameri-
ca. Saboteurs in Venezuela
blew up four power stations in
the country's oil fields.
"Order" for Terrorism
Authoritative sources both
here and in the Venezuelan
capital of Caracas said that
they monitored a radio beam
from Havana ordering such
terrorism.
The United States is urging
the Organization of American
States to step up its anti-Sub-
versive campaign to meet this
onslaught to the south. Within
the next few days the GAS
Council is expected to meet to
approve measures for intensive
study and co-ordinated response
to spreading Communist propa-
ganda, agents. money and arms
in the hemisphere.