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Among Fidel Castro's top lieutenants, none is more outspoken than Che Guevara, the Argentine Marxist who now serves as Cuba's Minister of Industry. Che, in fact, is so painfully frank that Castro has several times told him to soften his speeches. But Che keeps on talking. "We don't make little white ponies here," he says. "We've got little white elephants in Cuba." On Havana TV last week, in a remarkable confession of economic failure, Che paraded the elephants in full view...
There was last year's 3,800,000-ton sugar-cane crop-the lowest in modern Cuban history. The ministry's industrial investment plan for last year, said Che, was only 62% fulfilled, and for this year has been cut to 75% of the 1963 schedule. Raw-material imports reached only 70% of their scheduled level; because of this, Cuban industrial production was off 16%. Moreover, said Che, "we are undergoing serious tension in a number of factories because equipment is rapidly going to pieces." The only sources for parts are "cannibal" shops, which strip spares from worn...
...there seems to be a strong question, even in Che's mind, of just how much better things can get. Occasionally, the Argentine seems almost contemptuous of his adopted people. "Cubans," he has said time and again, "could not even make Coca-Cola...
Quijano traced the history of the Cuban revolution for the more than 40 people at the meeting. He said that with the exceptions of Fidel's brother, Raul Castro, and Che Guevara, minister of finance, the movement until 1959 was "genuine and nationalistic, supported by a large part of the Cuban people." At this time Castro was definitely not a communist, he vestured, although the leader did have Marxist ideas...
...should have been easy. The only hazards at suburban Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche were the exuberant French fans, the ubiquitous French photographers and a persistent French fog, which got so thick that play was cut to 63 holes and cars had to be parked around the greens with their headlights shining. On the very first hole, a 456-yd. par five, Nicklaus reached the green with a drive and a No. 8 iron, and sank his putt for an eagle. But after three days, the best that Jack and Arnie could manage was a first-place tie with...