Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moscow & Out. In December Castro sent Rodriguez to Moscow to negotiate a new trade pact with the Russians, who are obviously weary of pumping $1 million-a-day worth of aid into Cuba with little effect. The mission was less than successful. Announced last week, the 1965 pact provides for $640 million in two-way trade, a mere 4% increase over 1964 compared with last year's 22% increase. And to help square its overall debt, estimated at $650 million, Cuba will be shipping 2,100,000 tons of sugar to the Soviets, nearly double the 1964 amount...
...Polish news agency P. A. P. was just that. It spoke of "brotherly friendship and complete unanimity of views"; yet a quick look at the guest list put the lie to that in a hurry. Gathered in Warsaw last week were Premiers, Presidents and party bosses of the Warsaw Pact nations: Russia's Brezhnev and Kosygin, Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov, Czechoslova kia's Antonin Novotny, East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Hungary's Janos Kadar, Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka...
...Four new perennials from New York's Jackson & Perkins, including a dwarf lavender-blue aster and a com pact, nonspreading Purple Heart...
...sessions with his advisers and Guardia Colonel Bolívar Vallarino, he paid solemn homage to the "heroic sacrifice" of the 21 Panamanian "martyrs" (while neglecting to mention that at least nine were killed accidentally by other Panamanians), publicly promised a completely new treaty to replace the hated 1903 pact that gives the U.S. sovereign ty over the Canal Zone. He allowed the agitators to make their speeches, burn a few U.S. flags and stage their parades along carefully prescribed routes. But he warned against violence, and when the boys got out of hand the guardsmen were waiting...
...trade agreement with Cuba. While loudly proclaiming his independence, Castro made a point of telling his people that Cuba could carry on without Russian aid. "I absolutely do not have the slightest doubt that the country could survive such trials." He later announced a new five-year trade pact with Communist China, exchanging Cuban sugar for Chinese machines, rice, canned meats and textiles...