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People drink imported beer, smoke tobacco and grass-which is legal in Laos-and fondle girls provided by White Rose. The girls are often Thai and Vietnamese, considered to be more aggressive than Laotians...
Before the revolution, Cuba's close proximity to America worked as a double edged sword. America supported the Cuban economy but in turn tied down the island. In the early 1900's U. S. trade took 40 per cent of Cuban exports. Later the American Tobacco Co. controlled 90 per cent of the tobacco exports. Reciprocal trade agreements forced Cuba to flood herself with imported products, primarily American consumer goods. With such a balance of trade, the agricultural specialization in sugar, geared toward the American market, prevented indigenous industrialization and development of an independent economy...
...tourist, can only survey degradation held at arm's length. But One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich does occasionally convey a tragic sense of life discarded by politics: in the high, empty gossip of the Muscovite prisoners; in the pathetic scramble for a few shreds of tobacco; in the epic wasteland of ice and snow. More illuminating than either the performances or the screenplay is Sven Nykvist's Arctic photography, shot in the glacial reaches of Norway. Long a cinematographer for Ingmar Bergman, Nykvist can achieve a tactile sense of dread; his expanses of snow...
...with an imaginary ball. Finally, a prison warden produced the real thing. Separate latrines were established; a modest covering was provided in the one for females, a gesture labeled "sexist" by women's liberationists. Regular prisoners from the overlooking cell blocks threw down friendly gifts of oranges and tobacco. Late in the afternoon, when the wind picked up and the sun dipped behind the clouds, a city prisoner even tossed down his trousers with a note: "Here are my pants to keep you warm. We're all with you and love you too. My friends...
Major firms in the oil, tobacco, railroad and electronic industries scored profit gains as well. Still, the overall earnings growth is hardly spectacular, especially since it is computed against a bad first quarter in 1970. Alan Greenspan, a Republican economist close to the Administration, estimates that overall after-tax profits for the year's first three months rose only about 3.9% above those of a year...