Ex-Indian Defense Minister Krishna Menon reportedly making feelers to UN Acting Secretary General U Thant on possibility of landing permanent job (tax-free, of course) with United Nations…. Veteran Latin American diplomats predict U.S. State Department will in the long run find a Tito-type solution with refurbished Castro as all-around face saver…. Effect of Cuba crisis still evoking healthy anti-Castro action in South America: Dominican Republic has just deported nineteen Communist and pro-Castro agitators; two rightist parties in Mexico have redoubled attacks on government’s long-time softness toward Fidel…. Last week, just short of three years after Castro takeover, Cuban authorities ordered rationing of all foodstuffs—except sugar.
Some art treasures, stolen during series of daring burglaries in past couple of years, reported now hanging in Soviet picture galleries. A French diplomat, complaining to Russian authorities after seeing one of his mother’s paintings in a gallery, was told: Sorry, we bought it in good faith…. Anti-Gaullists boiling over calculated slip on government-controlled TV and radio. On the eve of October 28 referendum the story was leaked that length of French military service would be cut…. On November 5: Saudi Arabia a) (in N.Y.) voted for sanctions against South Africa for its apartheid policy and b) (in Riyadh) announced abolition of slavery… Important in vote against admitting Red China to the UN: eight African states (most of them former French colonies) switched from “abstention” to “no,” while Tunisia (now firm member of Casablanca group) and the troikaed Laos moved into “yes” column.
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