According to a financial Times report of Dec. 7th, the US Department of Commerce has announced a 90-Day denial of export rights to a Belgian oil company for shipping petroleum products of US origin to Cuba, in violation of the US Export Control Act. The denial order imposed upon the Belgian firm prevents it, for the next 3 months, perticipating, "directly or indirectly, in any namner or capacity, in an exportation of any commnodity or technical data from the US, to any foreign destination, including Canada".
Havana radio announced on Thursday that counter-revolutionaries had shelled Cuba's North-East coast fron a large vessel on Tuesday night. The attackers were identified as Cubans exiled in the United States, and the ship shelled San Francisco Beach on the North= Eastern Coast of Camaguey province.