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Salaries in Cuba range from 200 pesos a month for the least skilled laborer to 1200 for top professionals. There is a rough-hewn egalitarianism based mainly on the universal availability of social services, the disappearance of the foreign elite, and the nationalization of luxurious private homes, which are now available at moderate rents to vacationing Cubans. Much of the egalitarianism is symbolic, but it still has a perceptible effect on attitudes. Senor and Senorita have been discredited as the preferred form of address in favor of companero[a], comrade. Castro is never seen publicly in anything other than army...
...what price has Cuba been reclaimed for Cubans? Every day Cuba receives nearly two million dollars in aid from the Soviet Union, which supplies the country with oil at half the world market price. Although Cuban society has been transformed internally, Cuba is still dependent on a foreign power. In fact, what has not often been mentioned in the recent furor over the presence of Soviet troops is that Cuba actually has forces of both superpowers on its territory: the U.S. continues to operate a naval base at Guantanamo. The native strength of the Cuban people and their achievements...
Vance and Dobrinin met yesterday for the fifth time. They were reported to be arranging direct talks in New York next week between Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
...Frank Church (D-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, predicted that eventually "the Senate will require certification by the president that Soviet combat forces are not in Cuba...
Margaret Thatcher and her administration also stand to gain considerably from a peace settlement, and to lose if the London conference collapses. For one thing, Thatcher needs a foreign policy triumph to take public minds off the Irish situation, the poor state of the economy, and the harshness of cutbacks and austerity measures imposed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Geoffrey Howe. For another, she would like to associate her administration with a progressive African policy in order to outflank the Labor party, which had been traditionally more interested in the fight against apartheid. Further, the Tory leadership would like...