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...danger of a serious incident centers around Guantanamo, the last major U.S. holding in Cuba. The U.S. made it clear that the closedown of its embassy does not affect the treaty under which it holds unlimited lease to the naval base. Castro is sure to provoke incidents there. As a first step, the U.S. expects Castro to cut off the base's water supply, piped in from a river five miles away on the Cuban side of the fence. Stored supplies of water have been increased to 11 million gallons, enough to last 20 days. And in a matter...
IRON-ORE shortage is forcing U.S. Steel Corp. to keep 50 of its Great Lakes ore carriers sailing to Jan. 1, and Army Corps of Engineers will hold Sault Ste. Marie locks open until then, instead of normal Dec. 15 closedown. But ore movement will drop to about 77 million tons from last year's 87 million tons. Reason: strikes by steelworkers and lake seamen...