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...Cabrera invokes Human Rights assuming the voice of a mother wailing for her son who was left to die without medical attention in prison. But Cabrera is no social activist; he is a self-exiled superfluous man, a film critic in a country that could no longer afford to import movies, who vents his pessimism and alienation in a very powerful book. Its clipped and limited range brings it up short of what it could have been. An intellectual document is still needed to remind us that revolutionary Cuba, whatever its great accomplishments in renovating its society...
...trade figures are not going to improve very much, because import prices are going up quicker than export prices. But we've got a real prospect now in the export markets. One fortunate thing is that the American economy is now taking off again...
...Third World, Kissinger has wisely decided to abandon Smith. On his recent African tour, he declared that the U.S. will support a majority government in Rhodesia, and offered sanctions on Smith's regime. Kissinger also pledged to seek the repeal of the Byrd amendment, which allows U.S. companies to import Rhodesian chrome despite a U.N. boycott. In addition, he committed the U.S. to push for a timetable for transition to black rule in South Africa...
...more lenient than the 3% that Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey originally proposed, it is considerably tighter than the policy now in effect, which holds pay boosts to import curbs or price controls, to win the union leaders' assent. When the ?6 limit took effect last summer, British prices were rising at a blistering annual rate of 25%; now the pace has slowed to 12%. The government hopes to halve the inflation rate again by next year...
Drought-Prone. There is ample evidence, the CIA report contends, that the new era is already under way. In the early '60s crop failures hit India and Central Asia, causing major economic and political changes. India had to import massive quantities of U.S. grain, and poor farm yields in the Soviet Union undermined the power of Premier Nikita Khrushchev and contributed to his downfall. The Soviets also suffered agricultural disasters in 1972 and 1974. The drought-prone countries of sub-Saharan Africa have not yet recovered from a recent six-year period of little or no rain. Rice shortages...