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French soldier walks past body of European killed in Rue dIsly in the centre oi Algiers Another dead Eur mounts or BATTLE firaiomasu the debris of the battle that followed when European set tiers opeon lies In background amid Trieolors marched in protest In answer to call by the terrorist Sec ret Army Organization The toll of the dead and the Cuba Is Dumbiounded At The Disintegration Following are extracts from copyrighted report Gerald Clark associate cdl tor oi thevllioatrenl Star led to his newspaper lrom Kingston Jamaica Ioilow log on elghtday visit in Cuba his second in about year By GERALD CLAIIK KINGSTON Jamaica CF 1t you have ever seen anyone die of cancer you will understand what is happening to Cuba left Ihere Saturday dumbstruck at the shattering disintegration that has taken place since my last visit just year ago In 1961 some people in Ha vana grumbled and cursed the steady ingrowing of commu nism lint at least they looked healthy and ate well in 1962 the grumbling has taken on ominous proportions with women battling in market places for food for their chil dren All of Cuba is hungry and has lust emerged irom its iirst week ui rationing with hardly hope that there will be any improve ment An entire nation is on the edge of starvation and complete eco nomic collapse LACK FUNDS So desperately short of cash is Castros government that it has not been able to place an order in Canada on which it has relied for some essentials since the United States em bargo for four months Butter has not been seen for several weeks and milk is re served ior children under the use oi seven year ago wrote that any invasion Cuba would be met with stilt resistance because many people were loyal to Castro this was confirmed dis astrouslyvtor Cuban exiles few weeks later Today would not make such prediction because the situa tion has changed drastically Castro still has rigid core of fanatic supporters particularly among the teenagers who are being steadily indoctrinated Pie also has an effective secret po lice who even took to following me in Havana He can boast of at least 300000 armed militia men and women But their loy alty is less certain they them selves are iiiled HUNGER CHANGES VIEWS The main iorce in Cuba how iever is the big flexible mass of eople who last year wavered their enthusiasm but did not join the vociferous group of anti Castroites in open condemna lon Hunger now has brought on hitter and open resentful comments even by people who few months ago classified themselves as supporters of the revolution Members of the Eastern bloc especialy East Germans astonished me by their rank ness in saying that the Cuban revolution is failure and should be written off Yugoslav said flatly You can say that Cuba is near col lapse And even more significantly Cuban Communist referring to the desperate food shortage said quietly The United States has won this round For another thing the Soviet Union has failed to make good its promises or put another way refuses to subsidize Cuba blindly The Russians want pay mentheyoad sugar PREDICTION FAILS When was in Havana yuar ago Che Guevara told me how 60 Iactorles provided by the Eastern bloc were due to he completed in matter of months In actuality only three insignificant factories have been huIIta Hungarian tomato can nery an East German biscuit bakery and Czech pencil tac tary There is no sign oi any others under construction Agriculture has ialtered Alter last years bumper crop at nearly 0500000 tons this years sugar production is unlikely to exceed 4000000 tons partly the result of drought partly the in diiicrenco oi prolessional cane cutters and last years unscien tific cutting by amateurs re cruited in the cities Other foodstuffs are sold abroad for quick cash Canada last week received plancload of Cuban tomatoes despite general decline of all larrn items Its About Time By DUNC MCWIIIIITER TORONTO CPI Director desrgner Harry Homer says its about time more films were made of books by Canadian authors Horner an American citizen living in Toronto said in an interview Canadians should stop looking to other countries or top stage and screen entertain ment He will direct the filming of Canadian author Hugh MacLen nans Barometer Rising late this tall The novel dealing with the 1017 Halifax explosion will be produced by Crawley Films MacLennaa is working on the script Buildings along some Halifax streets are scheduled for dem olition and will be torn down immediately before the shoot ingI Horner said This will pro vide some scenes of ruins rem iniscent oi the period after the explosion Im very anxious to help get the film industry the Austrianborn direc He is currently working on several jobs at once He has just agreed to duee lilm on the lite of vi steomposer Fritz Kreisler for an Austrian television company PRODUCING OPERAS Also in progress is work on Verdis opera Aida tor the Seattle World Fair Mozarts Magic Flute for this summers Vancouver Festival and an American lilm called Gentle Murderer Horner 40 came to the US in 1935 and began Work on at no extra are And on class FREE European or write SAS Credit Foacler Eidl 244 Bay street This is the height oi the bar vest season and yet city people are reduced to diet of mal anga kind oi sweet potato that at one time only the most impoverished ate The theory now is that the Russians will let Cuban hunger pains grow more acute and then they will send in supplies so they can earn Cuban grati tude But this presupposes pre cise psychological moment for aid and the lid may well blow oil beforehand We Filmed More Books By Canadians Hroadway shows and Hollywood Irlms He came to Canada two months ago with his Toronto born wife and three children have decided to settle here he said am very optimistic about Canadas po tential He described New York as strange cynical city for the atre work The talent here In Canada is marvellous But its pity the country loses so many of its actors More glamor needs to be attached to theatre work here He said it is cheaper to produce stage and screen works in Canada than in the 115 and added that with some education of the public Canadian theatre and lilm production stood good chance at taking the lead NEW SCHOOL BERTHIERVILLE Que CP The Roman Catholic school boards application for $100 000 Quebec government grant to build an elementary school for boys here has been approved Youth Minister Paul GerinLa joic said in letter the board will get $25000 annually tor the next iour years CONSTRUCTION LTD Barrie PA 33185 starts your thrifty holiday with ©ED Gateway to all Europe and the bonniest hottv day youve ever had Visit up to 19 extra cities SAS jets you get exclu sive Maitre de Cabins service even In economy travel planning pack age Including how to visit extra cities at no extra tare SeeyourSAstravei agentmphone an Juli1107410417 llfllIIEI 31975 Torontd Ont Ellipire 25221 wounded was high when sold lers tired into marchers when they refused to disperse tAP Virephoto Gift Ships Cost Total 0i $5Million OIiAWA CP Canadas gift to The West Indies chcr aIiontwo passenger cargo ships cost $5034250 Prime Minister Dieienbaker told the Commons Monday In reply to Douglas Fisher CCFIort Arthur Mr Dielenv baker said the motor vessel Federal Maple cost 53i038l while its sister ship the Fed eral Palm cost SZMAMG The two ships were plced in service in the fall of 196 advantages fiumnalIaanPlan WITH PERSONAL MIMI Ynu AVE CASH oil IMHO yoa have the freedom to shop and bargain wherever you wish mm PERSONAL wAK vou UJW Imzassr you use the mostptadical and economical name 3mm musen ruesoar MARCH McGill To Fire Rockets MONTREAL CPI lIcGlii University will use West in dies base ior the Ilring oi high altitude projectiles irom spe cial rocketcannon The launching lite high altilude station at hicGills Bracc Research Institute in Barbados was olliclully opened Monday by SIr John Stow gov ernor oi the West indies Islands The scheme developed by main scientists under Dr Ger ald Bull and expected to be operative within matter at weeks involves the firing ol small missile shaped vehicles Into the earths atmosphere Instead of ammunition the vehicles will carry chemicals and measuring equipment Once released In the upper atmos phere they will record reactions and transmit them back to the ground by radio in this way lichlll scientists hope to learn more about the physical and chemical proper ties at the atmosphere Eventually winch gun will lire rockets ignited on the threshold of space by earth bound scientists hicGilIbelleves these rockets will attain orbital speeds and may even succeed in breaking away from the earth to soar into outer space BAN CHINESE JAKARTA lndoncsin AP The Indonesian maritlmo com mand has banned the use at Chinese writing characters in books on buildings and on In donesian ships in Ihc Rlouw archipelago area near Singa pore Its port at gowrnmcnt campaign to promote Indones Ian nationalism and counter Chinese iniluencc Pressure May Ease On Waterlogged Dam LAC MEGANTIC Que little of the pressure on the shaky Goyburu Dom will be relieved by the cod oi the week says spokesman tor the One bee natural resource depart ment ninoii dike being built to let out some at the water In the dam whlch has become saturated and threaten to break sending telnet flood crest down the Chandler River valley with Its 10000 inhabi tints lllayor Armand Drouia oi Lac llIcgantIc the municipality that built the dam to provide hydro electric power ior Itseli sold bulldozers have been brought irom Quebec City to get to work on the dike It is being built at one ride and will drain all surplus writer In hopes that tihs will keep the dam tram breaking However Marc Benoit muni cipal engineer wanted that even the dike operation may bring danger To get water flow ing through the new canal the dam hydroelectric sluiccs will have to be shut down and the water be allowed to back up un til the level is high enough for water to spill through the run off dike NEAR DANGER POINT The level now is between 1145 and 1148 feet We could say that the danger will begin when the level reaches 1150 loot Iiir Benoit sold The absolutely critical level would be 1165 Icet At this point the weakened dam ls uni ex pected to be able to hold up under the pressure oi 4100000 cubic feet of water Jacques Renaud mayor at CAMPBELL LTD Furniture llovlngvand Storage Commercial Warehousing Agents for North American Van Lines PA 555 and downstream Beaumviiie toe oi the main areas threatened by the potential flood of Ice and water laid citizen oi this town are ievertshly preparing tor the while hoping or the best We are to have another meeting tonight with lot array to put the Iinishlng touches to plans or ovaruailon he said The dam is made oi two con crcte shells filled with earth clay and gravel The clay has become waterlogged and 501W WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF ADVOCATEB PEACE JERUSALEII IAPlThe cob Inct has approved Israeli ad herence to the Hague Conven tion No ol 1007 which covers peaceful settlement at Interna tional disputes Israelbecomes the 59th nation to approve the convention BIIAREE LAND TEHIIAN Iran AP Shah Rcza Pahievl has distributed government land to 620 peasr ants on the instalment plan The new owners will have 15 years to pay at about 125 an acre ATTEMPT PEAK KATMANDU Nepal AP Thc government has granted an Ameican mountaineering ex pedl on permission to climb 25010 loot Gyo Chungkang peak near Everest The team led by Prot Woodrow Wilson Sayre oi Tuito university will make Ihc aIIcrnpt this spring mlunANCI Aorucv nuNLne 1r name BANK OF COMMERCE Today when yoacanboyalmoetanytbingyon mementfiaandngyoorpnrchaae wantonfimeyoumaynothnvebhoughtofthese With Canadian Imperial Bank of Camera Personal Ionnyoamnobtainyourmoaayqrnckly Repayments arenrranged tofit yonrown budget BeetofelLyonllfindyontiomlbranchmanaga SUGAR BOO MEXICO CITY AP Th Natlonol Sugar Producers We too estimates Mexico will sell record 329000 tons oi Burlap 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