Word: doles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROBERT N. DOLE...
...more thickly settled than The Netherlands; it is more crowded with problems than any other area occupied by Israel in the Middle East war. Some 60% of its 350,000 inhabitants are refugees who lost their lands to the Israelis in 1948. Most of them live on the dole in eight refugee camps, sitting in the shade of their huts and shuffling sad-eyed from one day to the next. Their artificial economy is based largely on money from relatives working abroad; the once lively trade in luxury imports resulting from Gaza's status as a duty-free zone...
...shack, and a large fray-feathered fowl refrigerator stored with home-bottled pickles, beets, scallions and ? two weeks of the month ? spareribs or ham burger. Eb wryly remarks that there are advantages to blindness: it gives him an honorable excuse for being on the dole. Since the hardwoods were lumbered off and the deep coal mines virtually gutted in the early 1950s, welfare is about the only industry left in the mountains...
...Escalante and 36 of his fellow conspirators were found guilty of treason and sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to 15 years (Escalante got the maximum). Though Fidel himself kept silent, he did not seem ready to split with Russia and lose his $1,000,000-a-day dole. Cuban Minister Without Portfolio Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, speaking for Castro, called for ideological peace talks with Moscow; after all, he noted, it was only realistic "that we should bring forward our criticisms of what we consider errors of its policy...
Life in Cuba is a dreary affair, and it would be much worse were it not for the Russian dole of $1,000,000 a day-even though the Russians are no longer appreciated for their contribution. The desperate urge to move in some direction, coupled with the proven inability to do so, has caused Castro's regime to lean more and more on such spectacles as last week's cultural congress. As the congress ended, Castro came up with yet another diversion. Countering the suggestion of Bolivian President René Barrientos that Bolivia's Marxist Prisoner...