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Show if World Sunday, February 18. !)() mc nauy iieraui, rrovo, i.iun Viiriaiiciii eiiwiave Cuban Communists may talk reform - Cuba's hard-lin- e Communist Party called its fourth party congress to meet next year, the official Cuban news agency said Saturday in a dispatch that hinted the party will consider economic and political reforms. Cuba has remained one of the Communist world's staunchest Stalinist holdouts and has criticized the democratic reforms that have swept out Old Guard Communist leaders in Eastern Europe over the past year. Saturday's dispatch was the first indication given that Cuba is willing to consider some change. However, the Prensa Latina report said Cuban Communists had reaffirmed their dedication to "revolutionary principles" and had cited a need to strengthen Cuba's defense. The U.S. State Department in Washington had no independent knowledge of the developments and could not comment, said an official who spoke on condition of anonymity The Communist Party Central Committee said Friday that on March 15 it would announce the date of next year's party' congress, Prensa Latina reported in a dispatch monitored in Mexico MEXICO CITY fAP) City. "The members of the high body studied an analysis made by the political bureau about fundamental problems that should be tackled by the fourth party congress, that need to be debated and adopted," Prensa Latina said, quoting Cuba's official Communist Party daily Granma. "At Friday's meeting, the committee promised to improve results in the process of correcting the sphere of economic and social development, such as in the political conscience of the country," it said. The news agency said the Cen- tral Committee reaffirmed its support for President Fidel Cas looks like quake zone based on democratic centralism," it said. Prensa Latina apparently referred to the U.S. invasion of Panama in December as a reason to maintain its defenses. "Facing the crisis of socialism and the aggressive euphoria of American imperialism, we need to continue strengthening our defenses and preparing the people to resist and conquer any aggression. "It is necessary to analyze the immediate and long-tergoals of the revolution. We will follow the light of our principles without ever responding to external pressures," the dispatch said. Cuba's Communist Party held its first congress in 1975, but Prensa Latina did not say when the third party congress was held. tro, who came to power in 1959. "The council proposed a study of the government structure to improve its functioning," Prensa Latina said. "There is agreement that conditions have matured enough to tackle in practical and concrete terms as to perfect the political system in the country," it added. Despite indicating a willingness to consider reforms, the dispatch said the Cuban government remains committed to its fundamental policies. "Analyzing these realities in light of "the situation of socialism on the world level, the meeting concluded that if Cuba has been able to maintain itself despite certain errors, it was due to our sticking to a revolutionary policy," Prensa Latina said. "It should remain clear that this critical analysis will not question Cuba's principles and will discuss how to make more perfect a united Leninist party Glass BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) shards crunched underfoot as Red Cross workers removed the body of a Lebanese Forces fighter crushed tank against the by his burned-ou- t wall of a demolished building. Gen. Michel Aoun's soldiers warned civilians not to touch corpses, saying some of them had been d by the fleeing Lebanese Forces militiamen led by Samir Geagea. Two other Red Cross workers in booby-trappe- bright orange uniforms trudged through a pile of garbage near the Soviet-mad- e 4 tank in the Furn neighborhood, trying to slip a metal stretcher under the body of a second militiaman. "We found the lower part of the body near the garbage. The upper part was 10 yards away," said one Red Cross worker as he waved off swarming flies. Parents shooed away youngsters watching the scene. "Where are the other two bodies?" one harried rescuer asked his colleague. "There were four militiamen in the tank." An eerie silence hung over Furn and Ein Rummaneh on Saturday, a day after Aoun's soldiers captured the neighboring districts from the Lebanese Forces tank assault. after a At least 43 people were killed and 54 wounded in the attack on the residential districts in Christian east Beirut. By police count, more than 600 Castro repeatedly has rejected the reforms undertaken in Eastern Europe. Zulus question Mandela's commitmen South Africa JOHANNESBURG, Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi and his organization Saturday lashed out at the African the conflict in Natal Province that has claimed more than 2,500 lives. Inkatha, which claims 1.5 million National Congress and questioned members, opposes the ANC's use of ANC leader Nelson Mandela's comguerrilla violence and its advocacy of militant mitment to black unity. tactics Buthelezi and the leadership of such as economic sanctions and his Inkatha movement accused the consumer boycotts. The ANC favors ANC of trying to aggravate black a partly socialist economy, while political divisions. Their statements Inkatha backs capitalism. On Friday, Buthelezi became the suggested that a bloody feud between the ANC and the more confirst black leader to criticize Manservative Inkatha may persist de- dela publicly since the ANC patrispite the release of Mandela, who arch was freed Feb. 11 after 27 has been widely viewed a possible years in prison. Mandela made "serious errors of peacemaker. Also Saturday, blacks staged projudgment" in suggesting that police test marches and rallies in several sided with Inkatha in clashes becities and towns across the country. tween the group and the ANC, The central committee of Inkatha Buthelezi said. "He did not even adopted a resolution urging Mande- pick up the phone to check my side la "not to be used by factions in the of the story." ANC (which) are even now being On Saturday, however, Buthelezi destructively divisive when history directed his criticism at the ANC, is calling on all blacks to unite." not at Mandela personally. in a separate stateButhelezi, Buthelezi said Mandela contacted of a was he said the ment, target "sordid and sick" smear campaign him after the statement was issued d activists, aimed at Friday and added: "I am entirely by depicting him as the main cause of at ease and satisfied that there is (AP) id still love and respect between us." Buthelezi, chief minister of the tribal homeland of KwaZulu, said he hoped to meet Mandela when the ANC leader visited Natal. This trip could take place as soon as next weekend. In black protests Saturday, police r im i t in the tribal homeland of Ciskei reportedly fired tear gas over a large area after blocking protesters from a stadium. A rally was planned at the stadium to protest the fatal shootings of several blacks by police last week during celebrations marking Mandela's release. a hi a pi people have been killed and more than 1.800 wounded in the showdown for mastery of the Christian enclave. Ein Rummaneh and Furn looked as if they had been struck by a killer earthquake after the brutal onslaught by Aoun's predominantly Sunni Moslem "mukafa-ha,- " or special corps. An acrid stench of incinerated steel mingled with the smell of corpses. Some of the district's densely populated narrow alleys resembled junkyards piled with burned cars, some compressed into thin sheets by tanks that had crushed them. Tanks and armored personnel carriers rumbled through the dusty streets as people emerged from bunkers to take stock of the damage and stockpile food. Many threw rice on Aoun's troops from balconies strung with Lebanese flags as they shouted: "Long live the army! Long live Aoun!" "We have finally seen light," said Mary Shammas, a housewife. "The Lebanese Forces was a germ that was squashed by the army. May God safeguard the army and the general. I'm ready to die for him (Aoun)." Some young women sunned themselves on a pockmarked balcony low-inco- n MM overlooking a burned Lebanese Forces armored personnel carrier. M0MDAY MARKD OUTLET 1700 BARGAINS SPELLED BACKWARDS ) NORTH STATE STREET PROVO IN THE CONNCO PLAZA ANC-aligne- Party boots Czechoslovakia (AP) PRAGUE, The Communist Party on Satur- day expelled former President Gus-ta- v Husak, former Premier Lubom-i- r Strougal and other members it said had given communism a bad name. The action came four months before the party, which in December gave up its monopoly on power, is to compete in free elections. In addition to Husak and Strougal. 18 other former officials were expelled, including five who were on the party's ruling Politburo until recently. "With their activity, they contributed to a situation where the ideas of socialism are quite discredited in a considerable part of the population," said a party announcement ex-leade- rs quoted by the government news agency CT K. The expulsions were proposed by a commission looking into the political responsibility of former senior party officials "for the crisis development" in the past. They were announced following a party Central Committee meeting chaired by Ada-mecurrent party chief ARE OFF OUR LOW EVERYDAY PRICES! HURRY! HURRY-- WE CLOSING OUR DOORS FOR THE SEASON! EVERYTHING IS PRICED TO CLEAR! 71 c. RP Salomon Adamec told the session that "20 to 30 percent" of the party's 1.7 million members had left its ranks since Nov. 17. l'!8!), the start of the 1 a a - Thirty-on- people e died heierung . . aicnie I WNORDltA peaceful revolution that removed the Communists from power. 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