Now. the administration is working at a total embargo. to cut off the $50 million a year exports Castro is still permitted to send here. More significantly. it would cut off American food which Castro must - have. As a companion piece. the administration is asking Congress for authority for a broad refugee resettlement program which would permit Cuban patriots not merely to come here for asylum but to stay here for good. This would take from a single State. Florida. the heavy and properly national burden of taking care of the current refugees. And it would beckon masses of new refugees. much as West Berlin serves as a gateway to. freedom for- the masses of Germans daily fleeing Communist East Germany. It does not seem unduly optimistic to forecast that this steady loss of able people would become as draining to Castro as it has -already become to the SovietGerman Communist regime in East Germany. Since Nikita Khrushchev has been prepared to go to the brink of war to ease the Soviet pain in Germany. it Is not too fanciful to suggest that Castro may one day feel an equivalent pain in Havana.
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