The World - News from March 24, 1986

Cuban President Fidel Castro called for the formation of a united nonaligned news agency, one strong enough to challenge what he described as the Western media’s monopoly of world information. “We must set up a big agency or federation of agencies. . .capable of facing up to the information monopoly of the news multinationals,” he told a Havana conference of the Pool of Nonaligned News Agencies. The pool, which distributed about 200 items daily to Third World and Communist countries, approved a program for stepping up its output of economic news and cutting costs through communications agreements.