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As for The Beard, Fidel's revolutionary sympathies lie with Mao, but he knows better than to bite Nikita's hand, and last week he dutifully endorsed the Moscow line. Still, Red China has not given up hope of converting Castro. Cuba is one of the few places in the world where both Chinese and Russian technicians remain at work. This month Peking happily proclaimed that its experts have helped the Cubans to raise 25,000 Peking ducks.
These Sino-Soviet duels around the world, as much as the fruitless talks in Moscow, have shattered any prospect of early reconciliation. Now that the Moscow meeting has collapsed, both sides in effect concede that what began as a charade of unity has become a Communist nightmare.