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From a sugar mill in Oriente province last week, the image of Cuba's most persistent TV performer flickered onto the island's screens. As cameras caught his every move, Fidel Castro filled and stitch-closed a bag of sugar, symbolizing the end of the 1965 harvest. He then faced his audience with the best economic news in his six-year rule. This year's sugar harvest had reached 6,000,000 tons-a 60% gain since 1964 and a return to the crops produced before the Communists seized power in Cuba. "This was a decisive year...
...years ago, the Russians tartly advised Castro to forget about factories and return to what Cuba could produce: sugar. All of a sudden, the whole island was mobilized, as Fidel said, to "win the harvest battle." Peasants who had been sent away to factory jobs were brought back as cane planters and cutters, swelling the work force from 150,000 to 200,000. Another 70,000 "volunteers" were pressed into service. Pictures of Castro himself wielding a machete flooded the country. Even so, it took two years, plus an exceptionally mild and dry spring, to reach...
James Baldwin: And if you think the ones who first escape are a little shrill, a little one-sided, a little extreme in their reaction, just have confidence that the next generation will reap the harvest of our self-consciousness
Farmers complain that the government-dictated prices are so low that it is not even worthwhile to harvest their crops. Unions gripe bitterly about low wages and increasing layoffs in the auto, appliance and textile industries. Manufacturers complain that consumers are not buying, are waiting for prices to go down farther...
...hothouse valleys of California, acres of strawberries and asparagus last week were spoiling in the fields while growers looked with foreboding to the summer's melon and lettuce harvest. Al though the state has nearly 440,000 un employed, it faces a severe farm-labor shortage and huge losses in its biggest ($3.5 billion) industry - farming...