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...sugar is already earmarked for Castro's Communist partners, leaving little for the world market. Of the total, 3,300,000 tons will go to Russia, Red China and other Communist countries at a price Castro claims to be "something over 6? per lb." This trade is strictly barter, and the Russians are notorious for their markups. Compared with what they would pay in the West, the Eastern European satellites shell out 59% more for Russian crude oil, 66% more for coke, 36% more for lead. Experts believe that Castro takes a similar beating...
...tons. That leaves 800,000 tons that he can sell on the world market. The trouble there is that so many people are producing so much sugar that the price has tumbled from 12? a lb. to 2? a lb. in 19 months. Altogether, in sales and barter with the free world, Castro can raise only about $145 million this year-hardly a bonanza, considering that Cuba got about $275 million for a smaller crop last year...
...Barter. At Abingdon, the tourists attended the Barter Theater's performance of Julius Caesar, and the First Lady presented the theater's annual award to Presidential Arts Adviser Roger Stevens for his contributions as a Broadway producer. In keeping with the little theater's name, the group bargained its way past the box office: Lady Bird unwrapped another White House seedling, and Mrs. Humphrey brought a bucket of vegetables-"not to be thrown...
...from which 15 million tons of steel will be made this year all over the world; now it is building a $30 million L-D plant in Russia and is considering a deal to put up a rolling mill in North Korea. Austria has also signed a series of barter treaties with Russia and the satellites, manages to run a payments surplus because foreign tourists spend $523 million a year to enjoy its Alps and its Gemiitlichkeit...
Finally the priests and nuns were taken to Stanleyville to join the rebels' other hostages. By now the leaders were trying to barter the lives of their prisoners for a ceasefire...