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...Havana, a huge billboard proclaims that "agriculture is to the revolution what the mountains are to guerrillas." While there has been a serious effort at crop diversification, Cuba continues to stress the production of sugar, which constitutes 85% of its exports. Everywhere in the land, posters call for "los diez millones," the 10 million tons of sugar that Castro wants by 1970, as opposed to a bare 5.2 million tons harvested last year and an alltime high of 7.22 million tons...
...Dayton, when a judge told Guillermo Angel Valerin that his fine for drunk and disorderly conduct would be "diez y ocho dólares y sesenta centavos" ($18.60), Mrs. Valerin said: "I'm sorry, judge, but we'd understand you much better if you spoke English...
Last week, fed up with the turmoil he created, Restrepo resigned. But it was a kind of Pyrrhic victory for Barrio Antioquia's defenders. Said the suburb's Padre Abel Diez, who had fought the red-light invasion: "There were insults; they threw rocks at my house and I could never sleep. We closed the church today. The decent people will have to leave...
...burst of oratory Defendant Diez's counsel ripped at the evidence, swore it had been twisted, that exonerating portions had been skipped over. Other Diez sympathizers blamed the whole charge on Nazi-inspired anti-Semitism working through a controlled press. They pointed out that Diez himself had demanded the trial to put a stop to malicious gossiping...
Whether rigged or not, Diez's trial shed bright light on the sorry business of selling sanctuary in South America to European refugees. Reports from Lisbon tell of Latin-American passports selling for as high as $3,000, auctioned off by the unsalaried consuls of small nations. In Berlin, Warsaw, Kaunas or Stockholm the pattern is the same. Some consuls were reported busily selling citizenship over the counter, then adding the stipulation that the refugee never enter his adopted country. The Japanese liner Ginyo Maru, which docked in Panama three weeks ago, was filled with Jewish refugees...