Word: though
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...however, refused to permit on-site inspections, and held out for almost a month against returning the planes. He agreed to do so only toward the end of a 24-day mission to Havana by Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan. Kennedy then declared that the quarantine was lifted, though on-site inspection had never taken place...
...tinkering mechanics. Gardens of homes in the once fashionable sections of Miramar and Vedado are overrun with weeds or chickens, and the housing shortage is so severe that Cubans often wait three or four years for an apartment Almost everything is rationed, including sugar and cigars. In fact, though Castro once dreamed of a diversified economy, Cuba has become even more of a one-crop country. In 1959, the year of Castro's triumph, sugar accounted for 74% of Cuba's exports; today the figure...
TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott last week reported from Havana these conclusions on the summit and its consequences: "Castro has clearly succeeded in his main objectives. At the very least, Cuba has won the appearance of a ringing endorsement from the Third World of its military intervention in Africa. Though there have been dissenting and cautionary voices, the vocal majority have applauded Cuba's championship of liberation movements. In the future, Cuba and those countries and guerrilla groups seeking its aid will be able to point back to this summit and what will probably be called the 'Havana...
...other main component of the President's energy program - the windfall profits tax on oil companies - was in similar trouble. Though the House had passed the bill, it was stalled in the Senate. It was said that Senator Russell Long, chairman of the Finance Committee, had abandoned his commitment to put a windfall tax bill on the President's desk by Oct. 1. The White House let it be known that it was willing to compromise. The $146 billion in revenues anticipated from the tax would not all have to go to mass transportation or to relief...
...applause whenever he told constituents that Carter should be given the benefit of the doubt, but he found that the same audiences favored Ted Kennedy over Carter by two to one. Democratic Congressman Dave Obey discovered that most of his Wisconsin constituents doubted that Carter would be reelected, though many of them wished he could be. Said Obey: "The people have not decided whether Carter is being worked over as a good man in a sinful world or whether he just can't cut it. They haven't made up their minds...