Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is no question that the American commercial blockade has hurt Cuba. It is supported by all Latin American governments (except Mexoco which maintains minimal trade relations with Castro). We have put intense pressure on Canada and Western Europen countries to cut back their commercial ties to the island. But Cuba carries on 23 per cent of her trade with non-Communist nations. This percentage is slowly rising as more Western European companies and governments become bored by the peculiarily rigid position the United States adopts toward Cuba...
Food remains one of the most crucial problems of the present regime. Everyone on the island gets enough to eat, and according to the United Nations Havana office, there is no malnutrition. Not many, if any, other Latin American nations can say this. All foodstuffs, except bread, eggs, and specific crops in season, are rationed. Cubans, for instance, were receiving three pounds of rice per person per month this summer. There is a good deal of frank and open grumbling about food shortages, but organized opposition is impossible. Furthermore, rationing of commodities like meat and milk should be considered...
Despite the increasing closeness to China of American bombing raids, Huntington discounts the possibility of Red China entering the war. "They have nothing to gain," he comments, except in the "very unlikely situation" that their internal political crisis leads current leadership to turn to a war with the U.S., which it believes to be inevitable eventually, as the only way of unifying the country...
Someone had a great idea for the plot of a movie. "Hey fellas," he probably said, "I got a great idea for the plot of a movie. We'll show this French town at the end of World War One that gets evacuated just as the Germans retreat. All except for the inmates of an insane asylum, who break out and take over the town, not knowing that the Germans have prepared time bombs to blow the whole place up in 24 hours...
Whether the hippies were being booked for narcotics violations or for garbage in the refrigerator, two days after the raid there was no evidence of squalor, except for some clothes strewn in the hallways. The apartment seemed to make the best of a bad thing. Collages, pop art, quotations from Hegal, and flower decorations relieved the monotony of beige paint. When the Commissioner of Health arrived to inspect it, he told a representative of the absentee landlord, "I wouldn't mind living here." Then he ordered the apartment be boarded up as "unfit for human habitation...