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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A April 28, 1977 The Utah Independent Stand THE MAKE YOUR STORAGE COMPLETE SCOTT s BAILING OUT Washington: sy.. f&ap country's deteriorating ability to pay for imports. The official Cuban request, adignored by the vocates in the U.S.. was made by Hector Rodriguez Llonpart. the Cuban State Compresident of mittee of Economic Collaboration, in a meeting with Japan's Foreign Minister I.ichiro Hatoyama. The Japanese official said Cuba has suspended assigning ships to Japan for imports since last August because its foreign currency' reserves had sharply dropped due to the heavy decline of sugar prices on the international market. Sugar is Cuba's primary foreign-exchang- e earner. In recent weeks, Japanese businessmen have been demanding that Cuba pay interest and warehouse fees for stockpiled goods, including industrial plants, automobiles, and textiles. 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Cuba in less than one year ran up a SI 36 million balance of payments deficit with FOR SALE NEW CHANNELS ANGLES, FLATS, and SQUARE TUBING Also USED PIPE and Japan. It's the same distressing story with other western nations selling PUT! WASATCH METAL & SALVAGE 205 WmI 33rd South PHONE goods to Castro on credit and at low- interest rates. These western businessmen arc now discovering that Castro is having a hard time meeting the interest payments along with the principle. SAIT LAKE CITY, UTAH - 484-311- 1 BUYERS OF SCRAP IRON AND METAL Krrrrrr,rrrrrrrlrrrrrrrrrprrrwrrfrNVri Silver and Gold COINS Any Quantity CASTRO'S I NEW STRATEGY By getting his American friends" like liberal Senator George McGovern (D-Sto work for the lifting of the U.S. embargo, Castro hopes to be able to obtain long term, low interest credits and loans in this country from U.S. banks and D) We will trade ONE U.S. SILVER DOLLAR FOR 1 oz. SILVER MONARCH COIN CORPORATION 211 East 3900 South Phone 4 Salt Lake City, Utah 262-587- ' anti-nucle- ar paign. Paul Scott Communist international lending agencies. world-travelin- 5 RED By Cuba is in deep economic and financial trouble and Fidel Castro is seeking to have the U.S. bail, d out his country with trade and long term, low interst credit. That's the inside reason why g Communist the Dictator has begun working his American friends" to through try to get the Cartcradministration to support the lifting of this country's economic and trade embargo. A graphic example of Cubas serious economic problems is clearly highlighted in their dealings with the Japanese. Cuba has been forced to ask Japan to postpone for one year shipment of goods worth more than S91 million ordered by the Castro regime because of that t is One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. -- James Russell Lowell 1 later in 1977 against nuclcarencrgy facilities in California. Oregon, South Carolina, and New York as power campart of tffe CUBA hard-presse- Your Continued from page e See our Elegant Woodsman Stoves that will heat 2,000 Sq. Ft & our Aladdin Kerosene Mantle Lamps that give as much light as a 75 Watt globe. Excellent for home or cabin. JBljwii Page 5 NUCLEAR POWER TAKEOVER PLANNED The Soviet Union, which supplies Castro w ith an estimated S600 million to $750 million in economic aid each year, is having its own financial, trade, and debt problems with the west and would like to dump part of its Cuban burden, if not the whole load, off on the U.S. This is why Soviet leaders arc privately urging Castro to act friendly" toward the Carter administration so that trade and aid from the U.S. could he used to lessen their burden and help d finance Castros and trained expeditionary forces" in Africa and Asia. Soviet-equippe- SPARE PARTS DIPLOMACY Another reason why Castro needs U.S.trade and credits is that Cuba's sugar processing plants, made in the U.S., arc wearing out and constantly breaking down for lack of spare parts. The only place these spare parts can be obtained is in the U.S. To receive these shipments, the U.S. would have to lift the embargo. That is why the Castro-McGoveteam is now seeking a partial lifting of the embargo as a first step. They want the U.S. to bail out Castro's growing sugar mess and then dump a large share of his crop, produced at low wages, in the U.S. With from 20,000 to 40.000 political prisoners, including a number of Americans, rotting in Castros prisons. President Carter is being urged not to lift the embargo unless Castro releases these men and women. The President is being told that more than 1,000 Cubans who whole dual U.S. and Cuban citizenship also arc being detained in Cuba against their will. Castro refuses to allow them to visit the U.S. or leave the country. Before bailing out Castro's regime by lifting: the U.S. embargo, the President should demand that Cuban-Americaallow these Castro to travel freely to this country to see their friends and relatives. If President Carters human rights" program is to have any meaning, the President should demand that Castro withdraw his expeditionary forces from Africa and Asia as a concession for lifting the embargo. Otherwise, the Carter administration in effect will be underwriting Castros program by President Fncouraged Carters order halting the future building of fast breeder nuclear power reactors, the leaders of the power alliance now hopes to build a mass political action front that will force the President to order the shutdown of all nuclear power reactors in the anti-nucle- ar U.S. By getting a number of their supporters arrested and jailed in the coming demonstrations, the radicals in the alliance hope to use these incidents to increase their following as did the anti-wprotestors of the 1960s and early ar 1970s. their advance training program. Alliance organizers arc privately citing how militant action at VVhyl in West Germany has effectively stopped construction of a nuclear plant there for more than two years. Significantly, several of the leaders of the West German protestors have been quietly brought to the U.S. in recent weeks to help In prepare for mass the demonstrations which begin in New Hampshire over the May Day week-en- d. rn ns for spreading communism throughout the world. Note. Terrorist groups being trained in Cuba keep in touch with terrorist groups in the U.S. through the Liberation News Service, w hich has its headquarters in New York City. Fnvy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached. - Chur ton Collins These covert international ties and others with militant far-le- ft groups in the U.S. clearly indicate that the Clamshell Alliance is committed to trying to achieve its goal through the physical occupation of nuclear power sites at Seabrook and other locations throughout the U.S. Because of the adverse impact that these mass demonstrations can have on the nation's future energy production, the protests raise some grave questions for the Carter administration. Most important of these is whether the Cartcradministration, which has opened its doors to the anti-wprotestors of the late 196-O- s and early 1970s, plans to encourage and give in to these massive protests and phase out the nation's nuclear energy industry or will they spotlight the hidden purpose behind the new protest movement to turn the U.S. into a second-rat- e world power. ar The decision on how President Carter and his aides meet this new threat to this country's security could give us all a clear indication of where they are taking the nation and who is running the show. In a little noticed Note. interview in the Village Voice recently. Ralph Nader predicted: if they don't close these (nuclear power) reactors down, we'll have civil war within five years. Therell he a big accident, say, out west somewhere and those conservative ranchers will find out that their land and their cattle arc worthless and they'll use their guns. only an instrument to he used, not a deity to he worshipped. Prosperity Ls - Calvin Cvulidge |