■ Let’s do it, let’s get Brzezinski, is the latest in-thing on the Left—from the Communist Daily World to The Nation, they’re calling for his dismissal. Carter should fire Brzezinski, says The Nation, as “the best and perhaps the only way … to put an end to the babbling incoherence” of his foreign policy. . . . The World, in a front-page editorial, charges that Brzezinski is a man whose “adult, professional life has been spent as a cold war champion, an enemy of improved U.S.-Soviet relations, a believer in H-bomb power.” . . . People in the know in Washington think these attacks, coupled with other, more moderate ones by the ADA and Sens. George McGovern and Dick Clark, may be having their effect on the President. . . . Carter is also in hot water on other foreign policy issues. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D., Tex.) sees no chance for passage of SALT II this year, what with the Cubans in Africa and the current beefing up of Warsaw Pact defenses. “There’s a nagging feeling,” he says, “—and substantial evidence to support that feeling—that our ‘partner in detente’ has taken us for a ride.” . . . And the Senate has indicated what it thinks about various White House maneuvers to get cozier with Castro by adopting, by 53 to 29, a resolution calling on the President to dismantle the current economic and diplomatic ties with Cuba until Cuba’s Africa Korps is brought home.
■ Castro is not about to do that. Intelligence sources in Beirut say that Yasir Arafat, of the Palestine Liberation Organization, is due in Havana in the next two or three weeks to work out an agreement for Cuban support of PLO forces. Palestinian leaders want a commitment from Castro to send troops to Lebanon should large-scale fighting break out in that country again, or should Israel try to move back in. . . . Shamed Hussein Haile, a spokesman for the Somalian guerrillas recently thrown out of the Ogaden region by Cuban- and Soviet-supported Ethiopian troops, claims that his forces have executed a sizable number of Cuban soldiers captured in February and March. (There’s been no confirmation of that report.)
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