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¶ Set a foot-in-the-door precedent for future U.N. intervention in the OAS and such other regional bodies as NATO and SEATO.
¶Give the Soviets a veto in case the OAS, as is likely, gets around to Dominican-pattern sanctions against Russia's new friend Cuba.
The possibility of invoking the never-before-used Article 53 had come up last month at the OAS meeting in San Jose, when the Dominicans, hard pressed, claimed that the OAS had no right to vote sanctions without U.N. approval. Lacking precedent, Secretary of State Herter worried that the Dominicans...
Quickly the U.S., Ecuador and Argentina whipped up a counter-resolution calling on, the U.N. simply to do no more than "take note" of the OAS sanctions.
Fidel Castro could have pretended to ignore the anti-Cuban resolution written in Costa Rica by OAS diplomats, because it did not specify Cuba by name. Instead he chose to strike his favorite defiant, heroic pose and staged a whirlwind week of speeches, each more frenzied and more sinister than...