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Utility Workers Local 1-2 rejects proposed contract, votes to strike Consol Edison; union pres orders work continue pending vote by all local members; Wagner sets probe
W Ger studies Western proposal that it renegotiate pol, legal and econ ties with W Berlin as step toward Western settlement with USSR; proposal would require USSR and E Ger recognition of Western Big-3 rights; W Ger objections analyzed
S, UN Assembly, against seating Communist Chinese
meeting, Washington
Wagner says direction of party affairs must be shifted to elected pub officials, s, Lexington Dem Club; stresses importance of party orgn tech aspects but sees main duty as educ and agitating force for party programs; warns reform groups on extremism; urges direct election of dist leaders and other changes to make challenge in primaries easier; Lehman backs view on leadership, s; Levitt s; meets Wagner for 1st time since primary; illus
1961In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba will adopt Communism.[†]
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, and 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean meet. Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola, and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital. Cuba is the third-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with about 10 million inhabitants. It is the largest country in the Caribbean by area.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]