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...sale depends on a single market that imposes and fixes conditions that is the great formula for imperialist economic domination." Castro nevertheless continued to concentrate on producing 10 million tons of single crop sugar. The imperialist market is monopolized by the U. S. S. R. Export of previously thriving tobacco is almost nonexistent. In 1958 Cuba exported cattle to South America: but in 1967, 1968, and 1969 cattle had to be imported from Canada (from figures by the Canadian Trade Commission). There is a great scarcity of consumer goods, as witnessed by numerous photographs which have appeared in the news...
...move was a major diplomatic defeat. Many Rhodesians had hoped that more, not less recognition would follow the republic's official birth. Despite the shock of nonrecognition, however, Rhodesia probably will not be seriously harmed. The country's economy is prospering despite four years of U.N. sanctions. Tobacco production has dropped by two-thirds since 1966, when Smith overrode British demands for greater black representation and declared Rhodesia an independent member of the Commonwealth. But nickel, chrome and other exports are finding their way to world markets via neighboring South Africa and the Portuguese colonies of Mozambique...
...called the Devil's Woodyard in the 18th century, when brawling lumberjacks settled there. Now called Lamar, the bleak little tobacco town of 1,350 in eastern South Carolina was convulsed last week in another kind of violence, an atavistic rebellion against the influx of black children to a predominantly white school...
...characteristic common to many habitual cigarette smokers is that they would like to stop but can't. A recent experiment conducted at London's Mauds-ley Hospital by Psychiatrist M.A. Hamilton Russell suggests that the tobacco smoker can be literally shocked out of his habit. To a sample group of 14 heavy smokers, Russell administered electric jolts at some point during the smoking process. The results were as electrifying as the treatment. After an average of eleven sessions, nine of the 14 had given up smoking; three later relapsed into the habit, but six were still off cigarettes...
Meanwhile, Sheriff Price is having problems of his own. The town rednecks -an ill-assorted bunch that makes the population of Tobacco Road look like the Princeton Triangle Club-keep glowering at him from their pickup trucks. A former deputy (Don Stroud) is out to kill Price for sure, and the son of the county's millionaire political boss is in jail for manslaughter. Nothing will do, of course, except for the black sheriff and the white ex-sheriff to get together to combat the forces of racism and oppression...