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     1. ER's interpretation of JFK's remarks was correct. In the final debate, Frank Singiser of Mutual News asked both Nixon and Kennedy "to pin down the difference between the way you would handle Castro's regime and prevent the spread of Communist governments in the Western Hemisphere." Nixon replied that Kennedy was "dangerously irresponsible" to recommend that the U.S. should aid Cuban exiles and those anti-Castro forces that are also anti-Batista, in the process, labeling Kennedy's stance "unilateral" and a gross violation of the UN Charter that would cost "us all of our friends in Latin America." Kennedy responded that Nixon was "misinformed" on Cuba and Kennedy's position on Cuba, rebutting Nixon's argument by declaring first, that much of Castro's "equipment and arms and resources out of Florida and other parts of the United States" and second, that "if any sanctions against Latin America are going to be successful they have to be multilateral . . . [and] have to include the other countries of Latin America." ["Fourth Debate, October 21, 1960," in Sidney Kraus, ed., The Great Debates: Background-Perspective-Effects (Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 1962), pp. 416-418.]