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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made a fortnight ago for $10 million worth of British buses to bolster his transportation system. But Castro cannot pay for many such deals unless he can wheedle a further relaxation of the barter agreement under which Cuba sells its dwindling sugar crop to Russia at 6? a Ib. v. the world market price of 10? a Ib. And this might take some talking-since it would leave the Communists with even less than they already have to show for their...
...Head. In part, the influx is the result of a government campaign to lure European skilled craftsmen and professionals, who are in short supply in South Africa. The Verwoerd regime desperately wants to change the population balance, which currently stands at 3,250,000 whites v. 13,815,000 Africans, Coloreds and Asians. In cities across Europe, newspaper ads extol the virtues of South Africa, and recruitment centers offer a $168 grant for each approved man, woman and child immigrant...
...Maps v. Victory. Fortnight ago, 35 miles northwest of Saigon, a 400-man battalion of South Vietnamese Rangers found itself pinned down on a scrub-smothered river bank by 800 wellarmed, dug-in guerrillas. U.S. advisers suddenly saw a rare chance: here was a Communist regiment that was prepared to stand and fight the set-piece battle that Vietnamese generals claimed they so ardently desired. If the Reds would only stay in one place, they could easily be surrounded...
...forcing the government to buy grain abroad, also reduced its gold reserves to a level estimated by the CIA at considerably less than $2 billion. There was a slight drop in industrial production, which grew at a rate of nearly 6% annually in the past two years v. 7% in the U.S. Moreover, the CIA sees little chance that Russia will again be able to achieve the sustained high overall growth rate (7.4% on average) that marked its economy in the 1950s. The government, it said, "is trying to do too much with too few resources," notably in space...
Tobacco Institute Spokesman George V. Allen, pressed for comment, said he had not had time to read the full 387-page report with its 80 tables, added: "I endorse wholeheartedly Dr. Terry's call not for less but for more research...