Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stinging Taunts. Early in March each year, Meo tribesmen journey to the small Laotian town of Xiengkhouang, sell their surplus crop at about $30 a kilo to middlemen, hardheaded types who belong to something known as the Corsican brotherhood. From here the business gets into illicit channels and high prices...
The hot winds of war scudded across the Caribbean last week. For the most part, it was a shouting war, between the Dominican Republic and Cuba. It was, in a way, a shooting war too, as Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo sent a 350-man force into the hills around the...
On one of his marathon TV interviews (five hours, from 10:30 p.m. to 3:30 a.m.), Castro resumed his attacks on the U.S., saying, "International interests want to crush the Cuban revolution, which is an example for the rest of Latin America." He waved the specter of class war...
¶ Nationwide cement sales dropped 50%. ¶ Sales of small appliances, car parts and other necessities are down as much as 27%, while sales of necessities, e.g., food and drugs, just hold their own. ¶ Big, long-term purchases reflecting confidence in the future, such as automobiles and heavy machinery...
Net effect has been to increase the very problem-unemployment-that Castro promises to attack through land reform. As Puerto Rico, Brazil and other Latin American states have discovered, the fastest, surest way to provide mass high-income employment is industrialization; all of Fidel Castro's measures so far...