Thaw in U S Cuba Ties Emerges Amid Quiet Moves
U S Cuba relations show a slow thaw despite the embargo. The State Department relaxed travel limits for Cuban diplomats in New York as private signals hint easing. Congress has eased aid bans and Cuba released four American prisoners. A Litton subsidiary trade approval with Cuba is viewed as aiding Canada not Havana.
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Washington
Cuba
United States
State Department
United Nations
New York City
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
John J. Sparkman
D-Ala
U.S
Congress
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
Claiborne Pell
D-R.1
Island
Treasury Department
Litton Industries
Canada
Havana
Organization of American States
OAS
Fidel Castro
Maryland
Nixon
Supreme Court
Environmental Protection Agency
Douglas Dissent Echoes From Hospital Amid Stroke
Washington AP report notes Justice William C. Douglas hospitalized with a seven week stroke still voices dissent. He did not participate in Dec 31 decisions but filed one solitary dissent and joined two unanimous rulings. He missed a sixth case argued earlier. He dissented in an opinion upholding firing workers who bypassed union channels to protest alleged racial discrimination.
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Washington
Supreme Court
William C. Douglas
Douglas
Jan mM
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Thurgood Marshall
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Marshall
Warren Burger
Alaska Pipeline Safety Problems Eyed
Several hundred truck drivers on the trans-Alaska pipeline project are off the job as the Teamsters Union holds safety hearings on a 90 mile stretch north of Fairbanks. Alyeska says no trucks moved since Sunday, despite no strike in the contract. The union sought state labor help to review unsafe equipment or practices along the line.
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Anchorage, Alaska
Teamsters Union
Fairbanks
Alveska Pipeline Service Co
Prudhoe Bay
Valdez
Alyeska
State Department of Labor
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Richard M. Nixon
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RCA Black & White
Woodruff
Cache Road