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ie we go to press, there are reports that unite of tha U.c, Heyy ara off the coast of tha Dominican Republic becamise of the danger of suppertsra cf Trujillo family attempting to regain control. We wonder if the rool explanation is not the foasr of 0,5, Government of the shergance of a soocnd Cuba... The workers nevoment is on the upsurge and for the first time for msmy yasra strikes havs taken Place, Workers employed by = factory in Les liinas, near Ciudad Trujilio, the capital of the cowitry struck on October 30th. ‘Two daye later, workers in another factory in tha samo regicn also stepped work in apport of a wogo olain WiST GRARANY = POLITICAL THIALS TCnaags
The mumber of political arrests, trials and prison. sentancea hos inereased sharply since the recent elections. In lsss than one month, more than 59 poople were tried and over 20 arrested for “ncntacts with trade unioniets in the Bast", "Commmist activities”, etc, Peter Umland and artur Hoppe, both 66 snd old-age pensioners, received sentences of cn and 3 Feats respectively ond 3 of their associates got 18 end 30 montha imprisonment, Sermann Waidlich, a young miner, was gontenced to 165 months and Itudolf Elum, owner of a ameall printing plant, Wah Sentenced to 16 montha in prison for printing lecfiste pretesting aeeinst atomic armaments in West Germany.