SHAKE-UP REPORTED IN STAFF OF CUBAN NEWSPAPER
The Reuter news agency reported from Havana October 12. that five of the main members of the editorial staff of Granma had.been removed. Granma is the official daily newspaper of the the Central Committee of the “the Communist Party of Cuba... -
Anong those. shifted to other posts was the secretary « of: the section of the Communist party to which the staff members” belong. According to Reuter, the five journalists were accused | of “ideological errors. ne . ae POE Ls
What these. errors were, the agency did not specify. “Tou reported that it had learned from "generally well-informed. sources,” that they were apparently removed from: the staff because phey opposed Fidel Castro's policy favoring an independent. orientation: © for Cuban Communism and remained faithful to the Soviet Communist: line. ee
The report and explanation offered by Reuter have not “yet been confirmed. it has long been apparent to close observers, how _ ever, that. the Castro leadership has sought to maintain its own. independent orientation. oh ae
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