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Castro Requests U.S. To Remove Embargo
HAVANA — (UPI)— Premier Fidel Castro, facing a staggering rebuilding job because of hurricane Flora's devastation, asked the United States last night to lift its economic embargo against Cuba immediately.
The bearded Cuban leader made the request in the midst of a three-hour Havana radio and television speech. After disclosing that "starvation killed as many persons as floods" following the hurricane, Castro said he did not want American help.
"WHAT WE ASK for is an end of the economic blockade of our country, especially at this moment," he said.
"We don't want Yankee imperialism aid nor do we need it. What we want is that they halt their hypocritical policy and their attacks. That's why the Cuban people did the right thing in rejecting their hypocritical aid."
Officials Say No To Stadium Bell
The Tau Kappa Epsilon bell which has for several seasons been on the football field at Memorial Stadium to ring out touchdowns and extrapoints will not be placed on the field this season, Arthur C. Lonborg, athletic director, said.
Lonbong said the decision was made before the first football game at a meeting of the KU and Lawrence police, the highway patrol, Keith Lawton, vice-chancellor in charge of operations, and himself.
"It's for security reasons," he said. The decision came as a result of a near riot over the bell at the last Nebraska-KU football game.
In their efforts to get the bell on the field, the TKEs have talked to Lonborg, Laurence Woodruff, dean of students; Lawton; and Joseph G. Skillman, chief of the Campus Police; Rod Lennard, Ottawa senior and TKE president said.
But a proposal to put the bell in front of the student section where the TKE's thought it would be less likely to cause trouble was also turned down. Lennard said.
Castro's appeal came as the United States was reportedly stepping up pressure on free world nations to restrict shipping to Cuba.
Reviewing Flora's devastation among some three million persons—half of Cuba's population—in the eastern half of the island, Castro suggested the United States was partly to blame for "refusing" to allow hurricane hunter planes to fly over Cuba.
CUBA'S KNOWN death toll from Flora is 1,157 and all but 31 deaths were in Oriente Province, Castro said. "But of course the actual toll is even greater because many persons are missing," he added.
The flood waters and rains unleashed by the hurricane were so terrible that "it was as if the Amazon River had engulfed Oriente," he said.
But Castro bragged that he did not "run to Guantanamo Naval Base and ask the Americans for help." A Cuban "bourgeois capitalist regime" would have done that, he said, "and then the politicians would have stolen all the relief money."
Castro announced sugar rationing—only six pounds per month per person—must prevail because of Flora and a new five-cent tax will be added to cigarettes and beer. Meat prices are also being increased, he said.
HE SAID CUBA must raise 200 million pesos to cover hurricane damage and better flood control construction.
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Three Men Fined For Stealing Sign
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Three Ellsworth Hall residents were fined $25 each yesterday by William Pendleton, Lawrence police court judge, for removing a "no parking" sign from 1516 Crescent Road. The men are John T. Katzenberger, 18, Wilmington, Dela, freshman; Raymond H. Dahlberg, 17, Almhurst Ill., freshman, and Benno Lederer, 18, Queens, N.Y., freshman.
They were charged with removing and carrying away," a misdemeanor.
The annual Kansas Editors' Day, sponsored by the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, will be held Saturday, featuring "Two Kansas Journals in Africa."
Editors' Day Set for Saturday
Burton W. Marvin, dean of the School of Journalism, and John McCormally, editor of the Hutchinson News, will be the featured speakers of the program, which begins at 10:30 p.m. in 205 Flint Hall.
The two men were part of a four-man team of American journalists
which conducted three two-week workshops for African journalists in Africa this summer.
The announcement of the election of a Kansas editor to the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame will follow the program.
The editors will be the guests of Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe for a buffet luncheon at 11:45 a.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The day's activities will conclude at the KU-Oklahoma State football game in the afternoon.
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