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Outmoded Words. Against so clear a danger to the security of the hemisphere from Cuba-based and Communist-in spired infiltration, the U.S. and other Latin American states must take steps. But what steps? Cancellation of Cuba's sugar quota was probably a violation of the article in the charter of the Organization of American States that bars economic intervention; it may also prove ineffectual. Russia has promised to purchase the entire quota cut at only $24 million less than the artificially high price the U.S. used to pay. Communist China has promised to buy 500,000 tons more...
...punishing Fidel Castro by canceling the rest of Cuba's 1960 U.S. sugar quota, the U.S. at first seemed in the embarrassing position of giving a windfall to Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Under the law, Cuba's canceled quota was to be split among other traditional foreign suppliers to the U.S. Trujillo's normal 111,157-ton share of the U.S. market promised to grow by more than 200%, giving an extra $29 million to the Dominican sugar industry, which Trujillo virtually owns. Last week the U.S. found a way to cancel Trujillo...
...Both nations were overjoyed at the prospect but did not want to say so aloud, since many of their workers and peasants still consider Castro a bearded Robin Hood, boldly defying the U.S. Mexico's official rationalization is that Mexico, after all, began asking for an increased sugar quota long before the Cuba-U.S. crisis began...
Permanent Cut. Cuba will lose $65 million on the sugar slash this year, plus another $25 million for extra allotments that would have been due her. Congress is expected to revamp the entire Sugar Act when it returns in August, may cut Cuba out of the quota system permanently. In any case, after allotting additional quotas to friendly nations and to U.S. farmers, the U.S. will not lightly return them to Cuba. U.S. beet farmers particularly stand to benefit by the cut. Their costs have long been above foreign producers' (the quota system is partly to protect them from...
...simply as a firm mold for flashing pools of moving truth. While reams of well-wrought verse make do with themes that could as easily serve historians, sociologists, geologists or psychoanalysts, he seldom tackles anything less easy than a challenge to poetic insight. Like all poets he has his quota of failures, but even there his sense of language, when it cannot save his intentions, still saves his music...