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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Apr 02, 1971

Page

5

Tough law traps shirkers in Cuba

Cuba enforces a harsh labor law penalizing the jobless and those who avoid work or school with six months to two years in labor camps. Regional appellate councils train labor justices to oversee enforcement as 90,000 un employed men were registered and placed in factories, agriculture, and services. The Granma newspaper hails the move as a major success in correcting anti social conduct and vagrancy.

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Greenland Ice Cubes Spark Vodka Promotion Tour

A novelty ice cube made from Jakobshavn Glacier will be shown in New York Chicago and Miami during early to late April. The cubes, described as pure with minimal impurities, are used to promote a vodka brand rather than sell the ice commercially.

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Salvager claims phantom German U boat with mercury ballast

J C Gaddy reports a sunken German U 106 drifting in the Gulf of Mexico loaded with up to 200 tons of mercury. Officials doubt the find as environmental and salvage risks draw scrutiny from the EPA and Coast Guard.

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