Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with his ideological attack on Peking last month. Khrushchev himself, at 70, appeared in fine fettle, although his own health problems have lately forced him to ease up on meat in favor of cabbage. He sounded only mildly carnivorous later in the day, warning that U.S. reconnaissance flights over Cuba might have "disastrous consequences...
...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...
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...
...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 two low sugar-beet harvests...
...from keeping an aerial eye on his Communist island. "We will prevent these flights to the limits of what our weapons can do," Castro said. And then, for the first time, he confirmed that he expects to get control of the 25 Soviet SAM-II rocket emplacements in Cuba when the Russians depart. "The rockets," said Castro emphatically, "will be handed over to Cuba." In the same emphatic tone, the U.S. repeated its statement that the U-2 flights will continue...