CUBA: Circus in Town

In the whole mad course of its 13-month revolution, Cuba never had a more daffy week. The major eruption came on one of Castro's beloved late-night "interview" shows, The Television World Asks. Hardly letting newsmen get in a question, Castro said in the course of a long ramble that the U.S. and Spanish embassies had been helping anti-Castro Cubans get out of the country. "I have always greeted the Spanish ambassador," said Castro in mock surprise. "I did not know he could dedicate himself to counterrevolutionary matters."

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