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o 0 O O o P0 rmer Cuban 6 Castro Army Man Delects to U.S.; Holds Conference Washington-IUPD-A former captain in Fidel Castro's army has charged that the Cuban embassy in Washington has relayed military intelligence information to Russia and Communist China. Angel L. Saavedra Y Cor rea, who defected early last year from his job as military and air attache at the em bassy, also made public a doc ument which he said was proof of Castro's attempt to subvert other Latin American governments. Saavedra called a news con ference and handed reporters copies of what he said were Cuban government instruc tions to him, while attache, to report to Havana information on "war potential, topography and military and air forces" in the United States.- He said he was sure the same rinstructions, dated July 10, 1959, went to all other Cuban embassies in Latin America. 'Make Contacts' T h e instructions ordered him to "make contacts with government officials of the country to which you are ac credited, who sympathize with the cause of the Cuban revo lution." They also ordered him, and presumably Cuban diplomats in other Latin countries, to "establish close relations with all those native or resident Cuban elements which may be useful to the fulfillment of your mission" and to gather names of anti-Castro Cubans. Saavedra, who has been in hiding, decided to tell his story now that the United States had broken off diplo matic relations with Cuba. Saavedra, now 35, was a sergeant at the Cuban em bassy here during the regime of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. He said he worked there as an "undercover agent" for Castro while Castro was attempting to seize pow er. 'In Charge Now' When Castro came to pow er, Saavedra put on his best uniform, walked into the Cu ban embassy here in which he had been an underling and bluntly informed the ambas sador, "I'm in charge here now." Castro later made him a captain and appointed him military attache. Saavedra said it was gen erally understood while he was in Castro's embassy (which is closing now that the United States has broken re lations with Cuba) that infor mation sent to Havana was relayed to the Soviet bloc. O O aptain Says Embassy Relayed Information to Reds He said that in November, . chief, two "unknown persons" 1953, when he was called sat in on the interview but briefly to Havana and report- didn't say a word, ed to Ramiro Valdes Menen- Technicians dez, Cuban army intelligence "I asked later who they were," Saavedra said. "I thought they were Americans. But I was told 'no,' they were 'technicians from Czechoslo vakia.' " SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1961 PAGES 1 to 8 He said he and others at the embassy here began delet ing information from their re ports so it would not gel to the Russians, but he is sure "they began getting this in formation" alter his defection. Saavedra now has a me nial job on the "ripping table" of a textile factory in Pater son, N. J., where he lives with his wife and son. Saavedra, speaking partly in Spanish and partly in Eng lish, said Castro's charges of an imminent invasion from the United States are an ex cuse for further extreme meas ures against the Cuban people. "Castro is scared, not about invasion from outside," he said. "He is scared about the people that will revolt from inside. "He is trying to set the stage for the killing ot thou sands of Cubans, which he will do at any moment, say ing they cooperated with the invasion." Saavedra said he expect? the Cuban people to rise up against Castro within six months. Then, lie said, Com m u n i s t "technicians" who have entered the country will reveal themselves as "an iron and will be put down the curtain army" used to help revolt. He said Castro faces anoth er danger - from the Commu nists themselves. "There is not the slightest doubt," he said, "that when the Communists are through with Castro he will disappear. They will kill him. Because they cannot control the man. He is a paranoic case." German Industry Trying to Save Economic Boom Frankfurt, Germany - (UPD West German industry is fac ing up to the problems of con trolling without killing the federal republic's soaring boom. The reason for industry's anxiety is that times appar ently could not be better. And if they couldn't be better, they might get worst. The fears arise from the be lief that West Germany has reached full recovery from World War II, and with re covery, flexibility and room for expansion have gone out of the economic structure. Stirred by concern that the federal government might jam the brakes on the boom, and by so doing, kill it, industry has come up with some firm proposals to forestall govern ment interference. Two measures that industry fear most are revaluation of the mark one of the world's hardest currencies and an end to the government's tax refund on West German ex ports. The Institute of German Industry contends that since West Germany's economic life is dependent on its exports, exports cannot be throttled at will. Countering possible govern ment interference with trade, the institute has proposed that industry take necessary meas ures to forestall inflation be fore it becomes more pro nounced. Self-Help Measures The "self-help" measures in elude letting off the mounting inflationary pressures by pro moting the export of private capital, and restricting invest ments to measures that would increase the efficiency of pro duction, rather than to those that would increase present capacity. The institute said recently that industry was prepared to aid the government and fed eral bank in their programs to help underdeveloped coun tries. Industry proposes to drain off excess profits by raising a billion marks ($23, 809,523) for this purpose. In order to avoid a boom erang effect, the institute suggests that countries receiv ing loans from this fund would not be obliged to buy German goods. These "self-help" measures, the institute said, would give West Germany a badly, need ed "breathing spell rather than kill the boom. The institute's main argu ments against interfering with trade are that it sees a down ward swing in international business, and stepping on the brakes might mean losing some foreign markets. German export industries, the institute said, have tailor made many of their products to meet the special tastes of foreign customers. If foreign markets were cut off, it would be difficult to sell these goods on the local market People Sensitive Observers said the insti tute's anxiety about good times reflects the extreme sensitivity of a people who twice before have experienced demoralizing busts following booms. With unemployment swept aside as effectively as the rubble of the last war, many Germans uncomfortably feel that the economic wonderland might be riding the crest of an errant wave. Some Motel Owners Not Happy With Label 'Motel' Chicago - IUPD - Motels have been fabulously successful in recent years, but many oper ators are not happy with the word used to describe over night facilities for motorists. Such words as "inn," "mo tor hotel," "house" or "lodge" are gaining increasing accep tance around the country. Biggest reason for the change according to C. B. Hurd, a Chicago motelman, is that today's lodgings have be .comc vastly dilferent from the type with which the word motel has come to be associ ated. Only about 10 per cent of present day motels fit the original definition of a group of lonely cabins on the out skirts of a town, where a blinking light indicated a tem porary haven for motorists. Today's motels have become plush establishments with swimming pools, golf courses, expensive restaurants and night clubs. Some of them bear such well known names in the hotel business as Con rad Hilton and Howard John son. Multi-Story Units Many have moved to the heart of the city and become multi story units such as the swank 13-story Lake Towers near Chicago's Loop. Hurd, who managed motels in Pennsylvania and Washing ion before opening a 534-toom establishment at Chicago-O-Hare International 'Airport, sa'd the wold motel was fir.t used in 1925 to rirscribc a roadside lodging A California architect com bined the words "motor" and "hotel." Curiously, some oper ators today have re-separated the words to eliminate the popular concept of the word "motel. Hotel magnate Hilton is among those using the word "inn." The word comes from Europe and is many centuries old. An inn usually consisted of a stable for the traveler's horse, a hot meal and a huge room shared by pilgrims bed' ding down for the night. It took a brave man to stop at an inn, because they often were infested by thieves look ing for rich travelers to rob Motor Lodge Howard Johnson's chain has adopted the words "motor lodge." Lodge is not a new word cither. But present-day motor lodges arc a far cry from the old cottage or rustic facilities found in parks or re sort areas. Some motel owners have dropped the descriptive word entirely, Hurd said. An example of this, he said is Florida's Miami Beach area Mile after mile of oceanside motels there have just a sin gle name, like Sahara or Beachcomber, and let it go at that FOOD BUDGETS New York American con sumers spend about 27 per cent of their disposable do mestic budgets to buy food sunies. Penney's TOMORROW! 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