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Cheddi Jagan is a Communist. "Communism," he says, "is winning throughout the world-it will win everywhere." The smiling East Indian has long insisted that British Guiana will never be come an out-and-out satellite, but the evidence of Red influence is everywhere. Czech and Russian trade mis sions abound; ships carrying Russian and Cuban cargo frequently nose in and out of the harbor, 31 by actual count in the last 20 months...
...campaign seems to be having at least some small effect. In Cuba's mis-planned economy, rationing is still severe if not quite at subsistence level. The distribution system is endless chaos -one week an avalanche of avocados, the next week none. But now Cuban officials freely admit having made serious errors, cite poor organization of state farms and premature efforts to industrialize. They talk endlessly of the peasants' and workers' grievances, always promising to give them more-just as Khrushchev does in Moscow...
...shipping records and realized that while 40 million bushels of feed had left U.S. ports, only 16 million had ever reached Austria. Six Austrian grain importers were arrested and released on bail ranging up to $200,000, one of the highest figures in the country's history, for "mis-labeling." Since the U.S. Government demands cash or letters of credit in advance from U.S. exporters involved in grain barter deals, the U.S. stands to incur no direct losses...
...season at a time. They learned better merchandising, pushed brand names with national advertising, mailers and store displays. Increasing capital and slower style changes have allowed them to concentrate on quality control and have reduced the eternal Seventh Avenue panic over a thousand dozen garments turned out with mis-tailored sleeves or weepy dyes...
...failure to remember is responsible for immense fear Americans have of revolution today, and the fear in turn attests to the rest of the world how right they are "to think of revolution only in terms of the French Revolution," Mis Arendt says. In another quote you won't see in Time she calls "fear of revolution the hidden leitmotif of postwar American foreign policy in its desperate attempt at stabilization of the status quo, with the result that American power and prestige were used and misused to support obsolete and corrupt political regimes that long since had become...