The Lowell Sun from Lowell, Massachusetts • Page 7

By JEFFREY MILLS Associated Preis Writer WASHINGTON API Sunlirijj pschJB" is nuiu iliiriculi tins j'Mf thin evtj before hut there still arc numbtv ol was to get present 1o rclallm anil friends rjy The problem was rauied by a slrihe in 15 eastern slates against Uniltd Parcel Ear vice, Uie largest shipper packages. A tenULlve wills rru'iil reached Friday iWl must tw raiifieJby Trflmslfrs members and is unclear whether Ihe company can resume normal operations in lime for Christmas shipments Uecause nf ihe Msher volume ca jsea" by Uie limliil I i'arcel strike. Ihe Postal Service moved its sugge'leil deadlines (or mailing Christinas parcels one woe earlier. The deadline expired Friday. However, there still are several ways to mail l'hri5tmus presents thai fur a higher price will get (hem toOicir destination in time In addition.

Aintrak. bus and air lines ami other private shippers olkr nays to send packages in time lor Hie holidays. A Postal Service spokes man said lirst class mail anil express mail are hoth raster than parcel post. A package mailed ai the Mrst class rale can be delivered oeross Hie country a week later, the FlIOHT 1 DICK ih I dill 111' piifi 1 7. Shp can tcUJif wrR i'ln'o'ilr" it VlEfnlci.vMi llbali.

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he said llul these services tost more lhan ptireel past Fores ample, the parrel post rate foi a livepuund jucktijc mailed from New York to Chicago is 51.50. Tlie same package would cost SJ.2i first clas5 ami (5.S at express mail i( picked up at the pusl cilice and 19 if delivered. In addition to the mail, transporlaliun lines and other skippers, can transport Christmas packages. Hut some of these, services are rot available in ull runs of Uie counti y. For example Amlrak lias a Sanla Express" to transport MIDNIGHT 10B TSIetastn' ploy ini HOC dr tialfci KASHUA MflLL 0H EiutiJ.Niiliii, H.I' MCHOIIV WTtRDU It A.M.

12 MI0H.0H' packages ol up to. 60 pounds lur Vi The liino in IraiisK is iltlermineil In' how hing the iim takes and the package mis I lie picked up by the recipient at the train station. Tho packages can be seutlo about 300 cities, but Ihe shipment must originate in one ol eight major cilies Boston. New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, Scaltle, San Francisco or Los Angeles. Packages can lie sent from all itv cilies by Amtrak'B regular package express, which ranges in cost front 57.50 In SI 2 jl) lireyhuund said a package I lr ss than 10 pounds could be transported between New YorV and Chicago for S5.70.

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Federal lixpress.an air ear By AlAJVTiN MKKZKR Associated Press Writer MIAMI IAP) Cuban Armed Fnrco Minister Haul Castro said Saturday that Cuba will he watching the administrate of Preadent Carter fnr signs thai American "hostility and aggression against our fatherland are terminated." In a mlnule speech Irans inillcd over Radio Havana and monitored in Miami, the broiher of Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, said "our uuvernment and our poo pie remain nlleullve during FIDEL CASTRO Holiday Faces hu.ltlSIVM INTRODUCING AMERICA'S FIRST SEE IT TODAY AT idling THE SUNDAY SUN, LOWELL, DEC. How to send those holiday packages go company, says il will transport a five pound lackagehe Iwcen New York an Chicago Tor 19, including pickup and this waiting period to verify if praclieol alerts taken by Ihe US. shnw (hat realism and prudenm make slcps in Uie new American arl ministration Relations between the United States, and Cuba, which seemed to be improving dor rag the pasl several years, deteriorated sharply this year. During the presidential campaign. President Kord promised not to renew diploma tir relations with Uie Communist government ol Fidel Castro, calling him 'an international outlaw Then, last October, the Cuban Leader renounced a thrce yearold.

anlihijaekmg agreement wilh the United States. Ho said he acted because ol what he called American complicity in the Oct. 6 crash of a Cuban airliner ill which 73 pers Willed Cuban officials have claimed that (tic 11 S. Central Intelligence Agency was in volval in Ihe sabotage of tlie plane which plunged into the Caribbean off Barbados American officials have denied Ihe cliarge b'our men, one of thein an anti Castro Cutiun oxile who spent lime in American prisons, arc br ing held in Yenu AT your houday parties Pocket CB EftSY TO OPERATE TALK TO OTHER CB'or Corran jp3d wiih nil plffi ond MULTIPLEX INTERCOM 22 nPW tkorin! pev CALL J0SLYN FDR YOUR APPOINTMENT AT THE STUDIO OR AT YOUR HOME CALL 851 2303 I Thi: airlines are more ex peisive. LTnikd Air lin cts said il uill carry a packaged up to 10 icuiuls from New York to Chicago for S15.T5.

Additional Says Cuba watching for end to US hostility OTHER LINES OF CB'l ltd ACCJS SHARP EXTH I JOHhSOl HOvlDAY riOJRS HOH. JoT. 11 l.o ll 27B (DfhJge St Q7Q 84SO BuiHnoloe M. USE OUH CONVHUMT LA Y.W PLAN DAMKAMIRKARD MAfJTTJcCHARGI i i nielu en murder tharges in Ihe Lrasll. American olficials atw.ob jcrled when 12,000 Cuban troops were sent lo help the Marxist iaclinn during Ihe Angolan civil war.

"Kol Ihat aeliun, Ihe President of Uie Urjtoil States said mat all hopes ol iniirovuig relations hetivcen Uie U.S and CuVl were canceled," Haul Uastru said during Ihe Salur Oay morning speech. 'That absurd anil stupid threat was judged by Fidel as a useless block on an improvement of relations, Castro uid. "We have sulfered aggressions aril sabotage agBinstnur embassiei, airline olfices and diplumatic personnel tn the last months, tn culminate with ihe cowardly and criminal sabotage to the Cubana Airlines plane he said. "Yankee Imperialism is repealing Its own Laetlcs." he said. "After the defejt in Africa, il shows the same ageressive anger that it showed alter Ihe Bay of Pigs defeat," Castro pledged to.

help rUlgoU liwue. "According to our incdeil means, we shall jDin our efforts to those ol nther Socialist countries to corilribute to the reconslrue Jjgn and development ol Tnsnla." he said. He also hinted at severe set harks in Cuba's aigar based economy. "While the nrie.e sugar, uur main exporl item, has been sharplv reduced in world markets. the prices of merchandise we buy from capitalist countries have risen," he said.

"That, logelher vrith a severe drought for several years, deepens negative fae(rs." Hut he said the Russians ore helping to "alleviate Ihe inconvfliiences ol ihe world capitalisl markets." He spoke during a military parade which marked the ZOlil anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban revolution By ANDY I.TPPMAN Assocljited Press Writer CINCINNATI (AP) This city, lor a model of fiscal stability, will lay off over 200 workers Sunday in an effort lo lower a projected deficit in city spending over Ihe next vear. Ninety four police officers, 67 iireuien and sanitation workers will be lurloughed as pari uf a cutback to whittle down an expected deficit of $12.7 million in the city's budget let Mure Ihan M0 school crossing guards nod ISB highway SmmAk IlTirFAMY TINY PSTIC tRaKJpRT I AVLOP mighty mo show 1 bVtfnfJAwXffilAM DOLL SHOVEL i A7 charges lor delivery are (6.VS lo a business address and fl 1 .95 lo a residence. Meanwhile, the Postal Service's suggested dead Line fur mailing Christmas cards and letters is Friday. BOB HARLEY Jamaican singer wounded KINGSTON, Jamaica tUPIl Bob Mir ley, one ciT Jamaica's lop reggae singers, and three members ol bis troupe were shul and wounded by a hand of gunmen who invaded his home in King stun police said Saturday The sources said Marley. whosii revolutionary rnascial style is highly popuin among reggae fans in the United States.

Wits shot in the arm in the attack by an unknown number of raiders or his uptown Kingston liinpilow Friday night. Hnspital officials said, none ol tlie four was critically in jured. Marley. 31, who wears die long braided dreadlocks of the Jamaican RasUfarian movement and Is (he boyfriend of this year's Miss World Cindy Breakspcare. has made frc iiuent tours ol itie United Slates Marley, 31.

was scheduled lo give a free public concert Sunday al Hero's Circle an evenl sponsored by the government of Prime Minister Michael Manley. Cincinnati to lay off 200 workers today mm Ii I I I i i i. i armors pia'ooh. I isa TZdA (Ti maintenancr workers, who handle snow removal, hive already hmn liict off Most Uie employe will remain on. Ihe payroll through vncalioc, sick and ootnpEnsaling lme until the end or 197b.

The city's new mnyor. Jams Lukoi, wits this as a iupeat of what's occurred in oilier mfljnr cili.es 'You can'L watch Ihes? things happening in NcVark and cities ill around yon and think it's not going (o happen to you. The only thing is that it came two or three years earlier than I expected. The problem. eeLirding to mayor wl cook nflic Irm week, is thai Cinrinrutl, like manyollier cities, has to bear an increasingly heavy burden from Ihuae coming in from the suburbs.

We've had a progressive rity. We've done things we can no knigcr aEEonl," Luhen said. "We paid lor It tver front Stadium with city funds Wc have a go jd city hut now the nuestiui Iwcomes rat Iww we expand, hut Iiow we prnteel." What most he done, according to I.ukcn, is tn fnrmp metropolitan area arid spread the costs to eflju the burden on the city with a popu intinn or The metropolitan area has over l.S million, and Jjiiken points out many industries arc following a and budding the suburbs ResidenE ef Clncmnatir distrust the government because of crime and down town decay in thr inner city I. nken said He said lhal as a result voters rejected an 35 per cent mrrease in earnings taxes last month lhai would have produced jist over Ji2 millinn. BUILDING LOTS FOR SALE IN PELIIAM, M.

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