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...good riddance for a very poor idea: last week negotiations between the Kennedy-recruited Tractors-for-Freedom Committee and Cuba's Fidel Castro broke down...
...Fidel Castro, who had already milked the whole business for far more than it was worth in propaganda value, refused to come down on his latest demands, sent a ten-man prisoner detail back to the U.S. to negotiate some more. He blamed the committee for trying "to confuse North American public opinion and the prisoners' own relatives." By that time, even the Tractors-for-Freedom Committee had had enough. It declined to enter into further negotiations. The sputtering tractor deal coughed and-hopefully-died...
...opportunity for U.S. humanitarianism to assert itself. Columnist Robert Ruark denounced it as an obscene, criminal proposition. Wherever the average American turned last week-to his television set, his newspaper, his favorite bartender or to his wife-he could get an argument. The subject of controversy: Fidel Castro's idea of accepting U.S. tractors in exchange for prisoners taken in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion. The U.S. dilemma: a strong sense of responsibility for the lives of the men captured in the U.S.-sponsored attack as balanced against a real repugnance for paying ransom money to such...
...evidence that Castro's ransom demands had boomeranged against him as far as Latin American sentiment was concerned: national committees were gathering funds to rescue the Cuban invaders in a dozen Latin American states, and the whole affair had finally convinced thousands of Latinos, at long last, that Fidel Castro was in fact a Communist criminal...
Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater seemed to be everywhere at once last week. He showed up on Jack Paar's late-night talkathon to denounce the tractor trade with Fidel Castro. He gave the commencement address at New York's Long Island University, at the same time picking up his fourth honorary doctorate in ten days (the others were from Arizona State University, Hamilton College, Brigham Young University). He debated on television with New York's liberal Republican Senator Jacob Javits, was a great hit at a glittery Washington debut party for the daughter...