Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fidel Castro last week summoned provincial representatives from all parts of Cuba to an economic accounting in Havana. The jefe máximo had bad news for them. Unless the pace of the 1971 zafra, or sugar harvest, is stepped up, he warned, considerable amounts of cane will go unprocessed. Said Fidel: "We cannot allow ourselves the luxury of leaving one pound of sugar unexported...
...bearded leader seems to be delivering nothing but stern exhortations. Two weeks ago, he wrote to Régis Debray, the French intellectual who was captured shortly before Bolivian soldiers killed Che Guevara in 1967 and was recently released from prison. "We are working hard and facing great difficulties," Castro confessed. "The march is truly long, Debray, because it is when power has been taken that we revolutionaries understand that we are barely starting...
...Castro's longtime critics agree that the regime's economy is in serious trouble. Pointing to a severe labor shortage, excessive absenteeism, low productivity and a woeful lack of modern machinery, a U.S. Government analyst said last week: "Something is radically wrong-wrong priorities, wrong emphasis, wrong administration-in short, chaos." Castro admits as much in his speeches. Last year, for example, he told the nation: "Our enemies say that we have problems, and in reality they are right. They say there are irritations, and they are right...
...they will. So will racial, religious, ideological and even emotional considerations. No one representing either of the superpowers or their closest allies has a chance. Yet a candidate must pass muster with both Washington and Moscow-the "Directorate," as Brazil's Ambassador João Augusto de Araujo Castro calls the superpowers...
...does the lady cope? By alternating between reality and dreams of glory that Mitty would be proud to claim. Her hours watching her offspring in the playground are brief respites from harrowing trips to Viet Nam and nights interviewing Fidel Castro as America's star female reporter. By day she extols the virtues of the grocery list as pop art. By night she is an intern working miracles in a ghetto hospital. She is a loving spectator of the sandbox-and-sprinkler set but her mind's eye is on PROWL, a black revolutionary group where...