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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOBD. OREGON SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 23. 1962 A 7 Cuban Uprising Hopes Doomed By Red Build-Up UPI Latin American Editor The massive Soviet build up in Cuba has effectively doomed what hopes Cuban exile leaders may have had for an internal uprising. If during the Pigs Bay in vasion of April, 1961, Cas tro was able to round up more than a half -million Cubans (one ouv of every 12) as a precaution to head off any simultaneous inter nal uprising, the added strength in arms and men (including foreigners) he now possesses increases his capabilities in this respect. Cuban exile leaders have always professed to be able to handle the fall of Castro alone ("this is a matter for Cubans alone to handle" as exile chief Miro Cardona puts it) and have confined their demands for aid to arms and equipment. U. S. 'Obligated' "If the Soviets are per mitted to arm and equip Castro, the U.S. should be obligated to do the same thing with its fellow be lievers in democrac y," Miro says. In truth, however, Cuban exile leaders have long sought a continent - wide "front" against Castro. It is known that at least six Latin American nations, and perhaps as many as 11, have more or less committed themselves to just such a front. These include, it goes without saying, the five tiny Central American Re publics long a Castro target. (Such nations as Guate mala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, for ex ample, have little chance to escape a Castro grab should it be made in earnest. All have been at one time or another targets for Castro subversion.) Would Join Front In addition, Venezuela and Colombia likely would Join any common armed front against Castro. How ever, most of these nations would condition their arm ed cooperation on U.S. par ticipation in such an of fensive. Cuban exiles believe without doubt the U.S. will cooperate in such a coordi nated continent-wide effort to oust Castro communism from the New World. The exiles believe, in fact, that U.S. public opinion in this respect is far ahead of the professed administr a 1 1 o n caution with respect to forceful handling of the Cuban problem. (It doesn't take a magi cian to guess Castro's pres ent frame of mind. The re cent tiny attack on the in significant port of Caibari en, in Central Cuba, was enough to touch off a gen eral alert throughout Cuba. Censorship was imposed and foreign correspondents - al ways regarded by Castro as "spies" - were rounded up until Castro determined to his own satisfaction that the one-boat attack was not the prelude to invasion. He took similar precautions last April. General Uneasiness (Other Castro indications of general uneasiness over the building internal situa- . tion are his recent orders returning farm lands in some provinces to farm own ers from whom they had . been confiscated under the io-called Agrarian Reform law. (Also, despite the wide spread "cheating" on food rationing, with small farms selling their produce direct to the consumer. Castro has confined himself to simple admonitions that such was not a "revolutionary" atti tude. In the past, with Cas tro's power unchallenged, such "cheaters" would have been promptly clapped in jail - at least.) Nevertheless, these fac tors do not encourage a be lief that an internal upris ing can topple Castro. Exile leaders privately admit that the best they hope for is ever - increasing sabotage, ranging from inefficient work to apathy toward so called revolutionary proj ects. This could be develop ed, they reason, into full scale passive resistance at the time of an invasion. Spearheaded by Exiles They hope the troops in any invasion will be spear headed by Cuban exiles -from all ranks of political thought and not just the anti-Batista factions, as in April, 1961. And there should be token contingents from the United States and perhaps as many as a dozen western hemisphere nations. There are more than 100 Cuban exile groups in the United States. The great bulk of them, however, are organized under aegis of Cuban Revolutionary Coun cil headed by Jose Miro Car dona, former Castro cabinet officer and a leader in the civil struggle against Batista in the years preceding Cas tro. Are Well Organised Cuban exiles are well or ganized but the huge num ber of such organizations renders them virtually im potent individually as far as any effective action against Castro regime, either ' po litically or militarily is con cerned. Several of the exile groups, although loosely linked to the council, are operating on their own. The student revolutionary direc torate, for example. The stu dents have carried out the sea raids. Other major exile groups also working within the council, but also out side, are the revolutionary unity group, the Christian Democrat movement, the revolutionary recuperation movement, etc. At least two of them are out after blood. The recup eration movement is "en listing" or making a roll-call of exiles young enough and willing to fight with arms and the students are acquir ing ex-torpedoboats, etc. for raids. Land Small Groups The recuperation move ment also has been landing small groups of infiltrators in Cuba over a period of many months. All sources from within Cuba - including foreign -agree that Cuban people, by and large, have had a belly full of Castro, but that any armed urising within Cuba to topple him is highly un likely. Just too many arms in hands of Castro army men, militiamen. State Dept. estimated at end of 1961, for example, that Russians had furnished Castro 30,000 tons of arms and weapons and equipment valued at $100 million. You can imagine what total is now what with open Soviet Cuban admission stepped-up shipments, and landing of men with Soviet equipment. Agencies Seek Interest in PWP Two Medford agencies, the YMCA and the Guidance Clin ic, are seeking Indications of interest in the formation of e "Parents Without Partners" organization in this area. The PWP is a national or ganization with a number of local chapters, devoted to mu tual help and guidance of par ents who, through divorce or death, no longer have a spouse. A classified advertisement in this and two subsequent is sues of the Mail Tribune so licit expressions of interest, in addition to those already ex pressed. It says: Duncan Neorng End of Week-long Campaign Scottsburgh. Ore.-'lPi'-uem-ocrat Robert B. Duncan, can didate for Congress in the fourth district, ended a week long campaign swing in Coos and Douglas counties, includ ing visits to industrial sites. At a speech earlier in Powers he criticized those who fail to exercise their right to vote. "Those who will not participate in making de cisions which govern us have no right to complain though frequently they complain the loudest," he said. Parents Without Partners: Whether you have your chil dren full time or 'on visita tion' wouldn't you like to know others in the same post tion to talk over common problems, to develop a fuller life for both yourself and your children, to hold group discus sions with psychologists, law yers, etc.? We'd like to hear from you. Drop a card to the Medford 'YMCA' or Guidance Clinic, Courthouse, Medford." Neither the "Y" nor the Clinic propose to organize or furnish leadership for such group, but are offering their services to see if there is enough interest to justify such an organization, and to pro vide assistance if a group h formed. A Dempsters . . . 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