Cuba Judenrein? 1,300 of 1,900 Jews still in Cuba (down from 11,000 when Castro took over) coming to U.S. , others too aged or infirm to flee current persecution. Catholics, Protestants confirm neighborhood-informer blackmailers concentrate on Jews. . . . Fidel Castro’s Dec. 2 threat to send Cuban troops to Vietnam directed more at his own military dissidents than at U.S. Refugee uncle of puppet pres. Osvaldo Dorticós says forced labor battalions and emigration have “demoralized” armed forces. . . . Malawi’s Hastings Banda decrees no one may pass his entourage on the roads in either direction. Security move also saves on petrol. . . . Dun & Bradstreet has 7 offices in Africa: 6 in Republic of South Africa, 1 in Rhodesia. . . . Re oil embargo against Rhodesia, even if complete it would deprive the country of only 27 per cent of its energy requirements ; the remaining 73 per cent are met by coal and hydroelectric power locally mined or generated. . . . Gen. de Gaulle expects to revisit Latin America this year. Diplomatic observers in West Germany expect another junket to take him to not only Moscow but even past the Urals—to Peking.
New Broom: First day on the job, Peace Corps director Jack Vaughn told Young Americans for Freedom executive director he wants conservative as well as Liberal recruits. Deal us in, says YAF. . . . Dean Rusk’s firm tack with the foreign and domestic press bringing him into focus.




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