DURBAN, South Africa -- (AFP) -- Cuban President Fidel Castro on
             Wednesday lashed out at the U.S. missile strikes on suspected terrorist targets in
             Sudan and Afghanistan in a stinging attack on superpower hegemony.

             Castro, addressing the Non-Aligned Movement summit for the second time
             Wednesday, focused his attack on the United States.

             ``It was hard enough to withstand the worldwide feud between two superpowers
             but to live under the total hegemony of only one is still worse,'' said Castro, the
             longest serving of the NAM's 114 leaders.

             He said ``repulsive terrorism'' was ``used as a pretext by the power that has
             exercised the most reprehensible forms of terrorism in dozens of countries of
             Africa, Asia and Latin America -- including Cuba -- to begin launching missiles in
             any direction, regardless of the innocent people who might get killed.''

             This was ``the world as a Western film in the old Hollywood style,'' he said.

             The Cuban leader said the United Nations should be ``reformed and
             democratized.''

             ``The Security Council's dictatorship must cease,'' he said. ``The Council should
             be expanded, according to the present membership of the U.N. and the permanent
             membership should be twice, and if necessary three times, the present number.''