Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exchange for the $1,000,000 a day he gets from the Red bloc, Fidel Castro barters away Cuba's lifeblood -its sugar crop. That blood is beginning to get thin. Partly because of Hurricane Flora and partly because of pitiful mismanagement, Cuban sugar production this year is estimated at 3,300,000 tons, about half what it was in pre-Castro years. Yet Castro has committed more sugar (at bargain prices he can ill afford) to his Communist partners, until he now owes them more than he produces. Faced with this kind of debacle, Cuba last week...
...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...
Washington harbored some suspicions that the Cuban maneuvers were tricks to drive sugar prices higher on the world market and set the stage for a later killing. But most dealers on the New York and London sugar markets thought the moves were genuine evidence of Castro's economic disaster. Heavy spring rains in Cuba have hurt the already skimpy 1964 harvest; the much-touted Russian cane-cutting machines have so far proved a failure; "volunteer" labor battalions sent into the fields to do the job by hand hardly know a machete from a mongoose. Moreover, Eastern Europe has suffered...
...When Castro refused to permit the on-site inspections agreed to by President Kennedy and Khrushchev, the U.S. continued regular U-2 overflights to make certain that no new missiles were sneaked back in. Though Castro raged at the flights, there was nothing he could do about it so long as his Soviet part ners controlled the SAM II antiaircraft rockets capable of bringing down...
...Washington, State Department officials could only guess at the motives behind Castro's new militancy. The U-2 complaint may be part of a buildup for aggression charges that Castro threatens to bring against the U.S. at the U.N. As if to broaden his case, Castro again charged U.S. Marines at the Guantanamo naval base with "outrages and provocations," including throwing rocks across the border fence and urinating on a Cuban flagpole. But no one could rule out the possibility that Castro gunners might actually take a shot at a U.S. plane...