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King did not deny Shakhov's charge that St. Helena's present-day population has an infant mortality rate of 33.6 per 1,000. Instead, he referred the Russian to the U.N. statistical yearbook, which lists several European nations as having even higher rates. Among them: "Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Rumania and the Soviet Union...
Worse than Last Year. Cuba bought 10,000 tons on the French market for shipment to Red China, another 10,000 tons from Britain to send to Bulgaria. In the rest of 1964, Cuba says it will sell no sugar on the world market, where prices are 80 a Ib. v. the 60 Castro gets from his Red friends. This puts Castro in a worse position than last year, when the Russians allowed him to sell 1,000,000 tons on the world market, thus earning a windfall of vital dollars to buy Western buses, trucks, tractors and spare parts...
...plan was an ingenious and an obvious one-and one that could be used only in a country where people can be treated like puppets. In Communist Bulgaria a government survey showed that 64,000 jobs were going begging in chemical plants and heavy industries. At roughly the same time, another government survey uncovered 65,917 men who were working at desk jobs that could just as well be filled by women. Solution: effective immediately, the Bulgarian government ordered all able-bodied men under 40 who have held nonprofessional office jobs for less than ten years to transfer to harder...
...Bulgaria, where there is also an acute shortage of housing, the loss of a job means loss of the worker's apartment...
...Greek Orthodox Church. In a circuitous display of national pride, the Turkish communications minister announced plans to reroute a 20-mile section of the old "Ori ent Express," which presently passes through Greece on the railroad's Paris-Istanbul line. The new route will pass through Communist Bulgaria, the minister haughtily declared. Off Iskenderun, the Turkish navy and air force began new "exercises...