Chile and Cuba getting closer to Nixon

Workers Press no. 946, 14 December 1972 · scan pages 3, 4

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BIRMINGHAM SUNDAY DECEMBER 17, Assembly Hall Digbeth Civic Hall Speakers :

G. HEALY (SLL National tary)

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PETER SMITH (Rover shop steward. In pers onal capacity.) CORIN REDGRA .VE (Equity. In a personal capa between Salvador Allende, the "socialist' President of Chile, and Fidel Castro, the bearded Cuban leader.

At an impromptu Press conference on Monday at a cattle ranch in the Valle de Picadura in Cuba, these heroes of the Stalinists and revisionists expressed warm feelings towards the butcher of the Vietnamese working class and peasantry.

Allende denied a report from Jack Anderson, •Washington Post' columnist, claiming that he had sought a meeting with Nixon during his recent visit to New York to address the United Nations.

He conceded that he had sent a telegram of 'greetings to the people and the government of the United States, but thing else.

Castro, supposedly the more 'radical' of the two, was more forthright and revealed that he was moving towards an agreement with the Nixon government on international piracy.

The signing of such a pact would bring to satisfactory conclusion three weeks of talks in the Swiss Embassy in Havana.

These followed the emergency landing of the hijacked US DC9 at Havana airport.

The Castro government in a note to the Swiss Embassy at the end of October called most vehemently for US co-operareign greets note begins:

Ministry of FoRelations cordially the Honourable Embassy of Switzerland representative of the interests of the United States in Cuba and • asks that . . . it transmits to the Department of State of that country the following. The Us State Department is further told that it is not in the interests of Cuba to be used as 'a refuge for persons who are responsible for common criminal deeds that take place anywhere in the territory of the United States.

'Nor has the Cuban government interest in promoting ... illegal exits and entries into the territory of that country..?

The so-called champion of the masses pleads for a "reciprocal and absolute commitment in this resUnited states part of the

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