Oas: Evidence to Consider

Last November Venezuela uncovered a three-ton Cuban arms cache on its northern shore, and took its evidence to the Organization of American States, charging Fidel Castro with "aggression." Last week, after seven long months of diplomatic maneuver, the OAS finally bowed to Venezuelan pressure and set July 21 as the date for a full-dress foreign-ministers meeting on Castroite subversion. Said Venezuela's OAS Ambassador Enrique Tejera Paris: "If the OAS cannot move now, we will become a laughingstock."

The OAS could go so far as to impose military sanctions against Castro, specifically a blockade to prevent...

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