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Sir: The Cuban economy is in tatters, but certainly not "back where it started as a one-crop sugar producer." Cuba's economy before Castro was buoyant and quite diversified, although the sugar industry was the basic business, just as steel is in this country. Contrary to what you...
What has happened to Castro is disappointment, disillusion and decay. After nearly seven years of power, the grandiose dreams are ended. Gone is the hope of a swift socialist transformation to make agricultural Cuba a Caribbean industrial colossus; the Cuban economy is in tatters, back where it started as a...
Two years ago, Britain helped lash together a sprawl of Asian real estate into a federation called Malaysia. It was born in the high hope of providing economic unity, political stability, and a bulwark against expansion by Red China or Indonesia. But there was a fatal flaw that doomed the...
But soon Radical Republicans, motivated by hate, greed, and lust for power, wrested control from Johnson. They shed crocodile tears for Lincoln and rammed through a plan for Reconstruction which raped the South, using Negroes as puppets to plunder and destroy. Finally, in 1877, the last military governments were dismantled...
Quinte's head is "a tiny gymnasium swarming with all kinds of athletes in the process of exercising variously"-but afraid to compete. He despises uniformity but craves membership in the Club. He rebels against mediocrity but tells himself he is "too mediocre to think of beauty." His blood...