As with Laos, the Cuban conflict had become a war of words. After listening to witnesses before his Foreign Relations Committee last week, Arkansas' Fulbright, who has been against U.S. intervention from the start, concluded that the Cuban disaster was a "collective responsibility" of the entire Administration, not just of the CIA. In response to a Castro declaration that Cuba is officially "Socialist," the State Department issued a statement saying that the Castro regime is actually "Communist"a fact that had long been as plain as the beard on Fidel's face (TIME, July 27, 1959 et seq.). State Secretary Rusk repeated...
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