Fidel Castro last week placed his country on the Soviet side. He did it in the most public manner possible: in a speech at the U.N. General Assembly in Manhattan, and in subsequent public utterances.
Castro's four-hour and 26-minute speech, the longest ever delivered before the General Assembly, charged that U.S. "monopolists'' turned Cuba into a colony, concluded with a Red-eyed view of world problems. He took the Soviet position on disarmament ("We warmly support the Soviet proposal"), on the Congo ("The only leader is Lumumba"), on Red China ("We support seating...
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