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Hi-jack talks a smokescreen for to Havana just over a week ago.

Fidel Castro promised the plane's pilot that the hi-jackers would be jailed for life. Washington sent a message of thanks to the Cubans for the way they had handled the incident.

Cuba has been regarded as a haven for hi-jackers because the Castro government has no formal diplomatic relations with the US.

In fact, however, Castro's government has been quietly repatriating hi-jackers. They are simply put on a plane for Canada, where the Canadian police quietly run them across the frontier into the FBI's arms.

The Americans are not satisfied with this backstage traffic. They are pledged to keep it secret, for one thing, which means it has no value as a deterrent for potential hi-jackers. And so far the Cuban authorities have repatriated only those hi-jackers who show signs of mental disturbance.

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It has been used against 'left' groups and student demonstrators, but never until now against the organized trade union movement.

The five CGT (Communist Party) members and four CEDT (Socialist Party) members are charged by Paul Berliet, the general head of the Berliet factories, with: • DISTRIBUTING a leaflet and organizing demonstration during the current wages struggle now in its seventh week. • 'UNLEASHING violence' when demonstrators invaded the deal Rogers has now agreed the Cuban request for direct negotiations between the two capitals-at present handled by Swiss diplomatic intermediaries.

The hi-jacking talks are seen as the beginnings of a political and diplomatic dialogue to bring Castro 'in from the cold' after a 12-year blockade.

Already the US has officially sponsored a visit by an oceanographic delegation to Cuba earlier this year.

The nationalist Castro regime was driven into the Stalinist camp by the hostility of the United States. This led the revisionists of the US Socialist Workers' Party to proclaim Cuba a workers' state. In reality it is bourgeois-nationalist regime with close ties to the Soviet bloc.

Nixon's Moscow visit in May, the huge trade pact and the diplomatic manoeuvres over Vietnam now make it possible for Castro to settle differences with the US.

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Berliet has also torn up all agreements allowing shop stewards to move around the factory with some freedom.

The firm plans a two-day lock-out this week as the latest step in hardening its position.

The Berliet factories are part of Citröen, which is now dominated by Michelin and the Italian car manufacturer, Fiat.

The crack-down against the the Washington Post' put it editorially on Saturday: 'Handled properly it could lead through cultural exchanges, claims settlements, trade talks and political relations-the familiar route-to an American detente' with Cuba.

The paper assesses Castro's position quite cynically:

In the dozen Castro years, the hemisphere has seen that neither the man nor his doctrine nor his disciplesin certainly not his example "revolution', Cuba has excited anywhere beyond his borders.

'Castro himself now makes no more than a ritual appeal for the cause which a few fearful Americans, but virtually no realistic Latins, identify with his name.

'Nor in a period of detente with the Soviet Union, and of intercontinental and submarinelaunched missiles, does it make political or military sense to overdo the old worry that Moscow will make Cuba a "base"' BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT Lyons carworkers is linked to a reorganization. of the monopoly in preparation for the European car trade war.

Berliet have ended investment in Lyons and will move to areas which have 'a tradition of greater social calm'.

Berliet made heavy losses during the first nine months of this year - 100 million francs down on last year-and discusSIons have opened up between Daimler-Benz and Michelin-FiatCitröen, involving the future of Berliet.

The use of the anti-riot Act against carworkers is part of a determined offensive aimed at destroying the trade unions, which is the only way the monopolies can proceed to reorganize.

The Citröen group has been leading the way—with the sup port of the French Communist In September, the CP dominated CGT unions signed agreement which recognized the form, that all political and philo- 'purely economic role sophical ideas' should be discussed only outside the factory, thus guaranteeing 'social peace within the factories' The Stalinist response to legal action against its trade union members is to beg Pompidou's Ministers to intervene.

The executive of the engineering section of the CGT has written to the Minister of Social Affairs, Edgar Faure, asking him to change the attitude of the Berliet management and 'to prevent judicial procedures from going ahead and to get negotiations started on the men's demands'.

Faure received a similar letter earlier in the week from CGT secretary Georges Seguy protest. ing about police interrogations of trade unionists.

Such treachery is supported by extremely reactionary nationalism. The CP's solution to the Berliet rationalization is national solution which would bring about co-operation between Berliet and Saviem, a branch of Renault [the nationalized car firm]'.

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