P.M. BRIEFING : Cuba Cuts Back on Newspapers
Cuba, blaming shortages in Soviet supplies of newsprint and paper pulp, said today that it is sharply cutting back its national state-run press by turning two dailies into weeklies and suspending an armed forces newspaper.
The main official newspaper Granma, representing the views of the ruling Cuban Communist Party, will remain as the only national daily from Monday to Friday with a limited Saturday edition for Havana alone.
The measures, announced in a government statement, were the latest indication of disruptions in shipments of vital raw materials to Cuba from the Soviet Union, the Caribbean island’s main economic supplier.
Out of the original four national daily newspapers, two--the Workers’ Union newspaper Trabajadores and the Communist Youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde--will become weeklies beginning Oct. 1.
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