Castro may crack down on plane piracy problem
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Fidel Castro does nothing to lure hijacked airliners to Cuba and may even be willing to help discourage the practice, a State Department official told Congress yesterday.
Shaw jury picked; DA to begin case
NEW ORLEANS (UPI) — An all-male panel of 12 jurors and two alternates was seated yesterday to try Clay L. Shaw on charges of conspiring to murder President John F. Kennedy. Opening statements were set for today.
The final alternate was Robert J. Burlet, president of a crane service, who said he had heard the defendant lecture at an export-import school where Burlet was a student 15 years ago. But he said this would not color his judgment of the case.
The second alternate was sworn in and Dist. Judge Edward A. Haggerty Jr. sent them off to get a group picture taken by news photographers. He dismissed court for the rest of the day.
Burlet was the 1,170th venireman questioned in '4 days of jury selection to try the 55-year-old retired New Orleans businessman who has been free on $10,000 bond since his arrest in March of 1967.
Shaw sat calmly during the swearing-in of Burlet.
With a full jury seated at last, Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison seemed determined to "overprove" his conspiracy case against Shaw.
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Frank E. Loy, deputy assistant secretary of state, told the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee that the State Department had made specific proposals to Castro for dealing with the problem. He gave no details.
But Loy said that if the hijackings to Cuba continue at the current rate-nine U.S. airliners so far this year, out of 11 attempts-'the Cuban government may adopt measures of its own." Again, he declined to give specifies.
"We are encouraged by recent indications that the Cuban government regards the hijacking problem as serious and that it neither encourages nor condones hijacking."
Loy said the basic solution to the problem would be an international agreement under which nations would agree to return hiackers for prosecution.
He said the United States hopes an amendment to that effect can be written into the Tokyo Convention, a treaty now before the Senate, which would provide for the return of passengers and planes.
Cuba is not supporting the convention. But if it did decide to return hijackers, the Justice Department could prosecute them under the federal air piracy law, which carries penalties ranging from 20 years in prison to death.
Ft. Hays has new pres.
TOPEKA, Kan. (UPI) - The state Board of Regents announced yesterday the appointment of John W. Gustad, a Nebraska state college coordinator, as president of Fort Hays State College.
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