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...haste seemed justified; his vessel was bombed and strafed before escaping to sea. Another Cuban ship laden with sugar turned back to Havana before it made port in Chile. In each instance, Chile's new junta cried foul. It contended that Cuba had to deliver 18,000 metric tons of sugar because the Allende government had paid in advance. If the sugar was not forthcoming, said the junta, then Chile was owed $8,000,000, including the cost of the cranes...
...indicated that foreign investment would be welcome again in Chile. Opportunities would be offered to "anyone who makes a fair deal." The copper industry, on which Chile depends for a large portion of its earnings, was to be spurred to better efforts. Under Allende production fell to 717,000 metric tons in 1972 and a predicted 680,000 tons this year...
Henceforth, the junta announced, production will be stepped up to 1,000,000 metric tons a year...
China's struggle to feed its expanding population has suffered a new setback. Peking announced recently that grain output last year was down 10,000,000 metric tons from a high of 250 million tons in 1971. The reasons for the decline were heavy floods and windstorms in many parts of China and one of the worst droughts in a century in the northern provinces...
...mouthful less each day. "In a country with a large population like ours," said the article, "when a person saves a mouthful of grain a day, he will save a peck in a year, and the whole nation will save up to a hundred million catties [50,000 metric tons] of grain...