The previous show concentrated on Castro's victims; this one concentrates on

Castro himself and his regime. Are the guests (and their host) rather one-sidedly anti-Castro? Well, as Mr. Buckley relates: "The producer of Firing Line, Mr. Warren Steibel, ... invited six guests known for the enthusiasm they have expressed for the accomplishments of Fidel Castro, but none, mysteriously, was available." A lively hour even so with three deeply knowledgeable guests. Here, for example, is Mr. Luxenburg on the widely held belief that the Castro regime had greatly raised the Cuban literacy rate: "In 1977, in May, a committee of the House of representatives went to Cuba on a (private) fact-finding mission, and published in their report--and we assume that this information was furnished them by obliging Cuban officials--that prior to Castro there were 187,000 students in Cuba. But there weren't 187,000 students in Cuba before Castro, there were a million. These statistics you can find in any old edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica."