On the domestic front throughout the past year. spotty unemployment remained in the face of the socalled emergency programs designed to bolster the American economy. Though we have lived in an aura of cold war tensions for more than a decade. the situation in Cuba. Russias satellite colony 90 miles off the coast of Florida. has become far more explosive. and the attempted invasion of Cuba by its exile and refugee citizens became a fiasco which strengthened Castros hand. There has been a tremendous military buildup in Cuba which is continuing as this report is being written. New undercurrents continue elsewhere as the struggle between free nations in the world and Communistdominated countries erupts with new fervor.