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CUnA CELEBRATES 31ST YEAR OF COMMUNISM
Castro to work on U.S. relations
CIENFUEGOS, Cuba (AP) - Cubans celebrated CUBAN AND State Department negotiators met in from southern Africa, and to stop promoting in-
the 31st revolutionary anniversary yesterday and New York two weeks ago in the first round of talks dependence for the nearby U.S. Commonwealth of
thousands poured into Cienfuegos for President Fidel aimed at resuming Cuban emigration to the United Puerto Rico.
Castro's annual speech. States, curtailed by Washington since 1980, and the In his July 26th speech last year, Castro called
Castro's 26 of July speech is carried live by the return to Cuba of some 1,000 refugees who arrived in Reagan "the most brutal and most sinister" U.S.
state broadcast outlets and serves as a "state of the the 1980 Cuban boatlift and were classified by U.S. president since the Communists took power in Cuba
union" address. authorities as hard-core criminals, in 1959.
CUBANS FROM outlying provinces came by bus to U.S. officials say more talks on immigration are BUT SOME foreign officials in Cuba have
this south-coast city of some 100,000 people for the expected and that the outcome of the negotiations is speculated that Castro wants to improve relations
festivities and speech. an indicator of whether the two nations can then now because of their belief that Reagan will win re-
Lt. Jerry Rawlings, military leader of the African move on to discuss their fundamental differences. election. The U.S.-led Grenada invasion, which
nation of Ghana, was the only foreign head of state Cuba, which has used emigration as a safety valve routed 750 Cubans from the Caribbean island, raised
publicly announced to be attending. A featured guest to release malcontents, would like the United States fears in Cuba that Reagan might use force against
at last year's celebration was Grenada Prime to set an immigration quota of 20,000 people per year. the island 90 miles south of the Florida Keys.
Minister Maurice Bishop, a Castro ally who was Currently, U.S. visas are issued only to Cubans whose The holiday marks the anniversary of a 1953 attack
killed Oct. 19 in a takeover by radical leaders that parents, spouses or children have American citizen- on army barracks at Moncada, in eastern Cuba.
sparked the U.S.-led invasion of the Caribbean nation ship. Castro, then a 26-year-old lawyer, was captured and
six days later. TRADITIONAL Castro demands of the United most of his 130 followers were killed. But the bold attack
Castro in recent weeks has expressed anew his States include staying out of Central America's - and a stirring "History Will Absolve Me" speech
willingness to improve relations with the United guerrilla wars, ending spy surveillance of Cuba, made by Castro at his trial - established him as
States. During a visit in June by the Rev. Jesse turning over the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, leader of the opposition to right-wing dictator
Jackson, then a Democratic presidential candidate, Cuba, and ending a trade embargo started by Fulgencio Batista.
Castro indicated he would like to exchange am- President John Kennedy. Exiled to Mexico, Castro returned in 1956 to begin a
bassadors and have high-level talks with the United U.S. officials want Castro to withdraw Cuban guerrilla war that finally ousted Batista in January
States. military advisers from Central America and troops 1959.
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Guardian Angels sue
Detroit for meeting ouster
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DETROIT (UPI) - Guardian Angel
leader Curtis Sliwa filed suit yesterday
in U.S. District Court, charging his civil
rights were violated when he was
thrown out of a public meeting last
February.
"This suit shows we're pressing
Mayor (Coleman) Young from all
sides," said Sliwa who is seeking
$10,000 in damages. "We feel the mayor
and the city violated our constitutional,
civil, and statutory rights which we feel
are covered by both state and federal
common law."
THE SUIT claimed the mayor or-
dered several Guardian Angels, in-
cluding Sliwa, forcibly ejected from a
special public meeting Feb. 22 called by
Young in response to an increasing
number of schoolgirl rapes.
The Guardian Angels patrol group
was founded in New York City in the
1970s and has since set up patrols in
dozens of U.S. cities, including Detroit.
Guardian Angels can be identified by
the distinctive red berets they wear
while on patrol.
Sliwa said last month that the group
would visit Ann Arbor in July to discuss
with city officials the possibility of
establishing a local chapter, but no
progress toward that meeting has yet
been reported.
According to the lawsuit, police
arrested Sliwa at the meeting "for the
purpose of harassing him." Charges
against Sliwa were later dismissed.
The Guardian Angels head said he
planned to donate any award beyond
his legal costs for the suit to the city to
help pay for more police officers to
patrol Detroit streets.
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Who do you call?
A young film fanatic displays a Ghostbusters shirt and matching balloon
during the art fair yesterday.
Second Chance chooses
dance over hard rock
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Bronson, one of the managers of the facility opening up will have some kind
club, the 21 age requirement makes it of an impact."
"much easier legally because at 18 it is Steve Crowley, manager of Rick's
so difficult to stop those underage from American Cafe, complimented Carver
drinking." for making the switch to something new
If the move to video style music even though the Second Chance was still
becomes successful here, one of the quite successful. He also cited his own
ballroom's neighbors should be given bar's efforts to market different kinds
some of the credit. Campus favorite of live music each night to attract a
Dooley's made the switch from just varied age group of people.
drinking to dancing with recorded "Rock is limited to certain age
music - on a smaller scale - about one groups, so we try to bring in blues, jazz
year ago. and reggae acts instead of the hard
"The opening of the ballroom should rock," said Crowley. "I don't think we
be a positive thing for the town, but we are in competition because we're
probably won't be in competition marketed towards different crowds.
because their customers won't be our What John Carver is doing is adapting
customers," said Norm Foltz, manager to what he feels are the future trends in
of Dooley's. "Still any kind of nice music."
Auto cos. claim workers
underestimate crisis
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DETROIT (UPI) - Union members
and the American public do not under-
stand how fragile the U.S. auto market
still is despite record billion-dollar
profits, the chief bargainer for General
Motors Corp. said yesterday.
GM presented the United Auto
Workers with an in-depth presentation
on its financial status and competitive
situation vis-a-vis the Japanese during
the day's negotiations.
Meanwhile, the union in bargaining
at Ford Motor Co. in nearby Dearborn,
Mich., asked the automaker to fatten its
profit sharing formula.
Contracts covering 350,000 workers at
GM and 114,000 at Ford expire Sept. 14.
Ford yesterday reported a $909 million
profit for the second quarter, and
analysts expect GM's earning to be
over $1 billion when they are reported
today.
Despite this year's strong perfor-
mances, analysts are predicting sales
will drop late next year and GM Vice
President Alfred Warren said the com-
pany pointed this out to the union.
But he said he does not think UAW
members understand the market's
fragility.
UAW Vice President Donald Ephlin
agreed workers may be somewhat con-
fused, but it is the firms' own fault.
"I think the profit levels the com-
panies have achieved and the too large
(executive) bonuses sent the wrong
message to our workers, the American
public and to Washington," he said.
He said workers' strong interest in
job security - the UAW's No. 1 goal in
this year's talks - shows they are
aware auto sales could fall off in the
future.
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