On the eve of the eighth anniversary of his 26th of July movement, Fidel Castro prepared to take some final formal vows to Communism. His old revolutionary party would be merged with the Cuban Communist Party, and his scribes were writing a new constitution officially proclaiming Cuba a "socialist state." All this was being tied in with an anniversary celebration at which the principal attraction was to be Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.*
For those Cubans who prefer to take another direction, the U.S. last week held out a tantalizing hope. The State Department offered to sponsor a free airlift for...
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