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...frustrations and failures of rigid Communist economic planning are just as keenly felt in Czechoslovakia-perhaps because the Czechs have always known better. In prewar (and preCommunist) Czechoslovakia, "Made in Czechoslovakia" was a label of quality respected the world over. No longer. So shoddy have Czech goods become that in some cases even Moscow has re jected the output of its Comecon daughter...
...dozen men. Other Western countries also give solicitous service, sometimes dispatch salesmen born in Eastern Europe-or eminent public personalities. Recently Denmark's Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag visited Eastern Europe to sell some goods, and Britain's Lord Snowdon jetted to Prague to talk with Czech buyers at a British industrial design show there...
...Incentive. Quality reform in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Poland has begun to improve many goods. Managers have been ordered to produce goods that the domestic market needs and foreigners will buy. Some Czech factories had their state subsidies slashed and were told to fend for themselves in the market-either to make a profit or face bankruptcy. The Eastern bloc is aware that it will have to continue improving quality if it hopes to increase its trade with the West but finds it difficult to give incentive and motivation to workers in socialized industries. No one is better aware...
...courts in Louisiana with a $668,000 claim against Cuba for unpaid shipping charges, and won uncontested judgments in both. When defectors sailed a Cuban freighter into Norfolk harbor in 1961, Mayan was ready, attached the ship and its cargo of sugar bound for Russia. But the Czech embassy, caretaker for Castro in Washington, invoked sovereign immunity. The State Department assented, and the attachment was thrown out. (Backing up the doctrine was an informal agreement between the U.S. and Cuba to return "hijacked" property; the day before the defection, Castro's officials had returned an Eastern Airlines Electra that...
Mayan got its second chance this June, when the Cuban freighter Aracelio Iglesia collided with a Norwegian ship near the Panama Canal and had to be towed to the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone for repairs. Again Mayan filed for attachment, again the Czech embassy intervened, and again-last month -the claim was dismissed...