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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...U.S.S.R. and its East European allies buy three-fourths of Cuba's sugar for about 400 per lb., vs. a world price of 90. In return, the Soviets sell Cuba nearly all the oil it burns, at $14 per bbl., about one-third below the world price The Soviets and the Eastern bloc also buy most of Cuba's nickel, its other major export, at prices about 50% higher than world levels, and fund most of Cuba's industrial development. Projects financed by the U.S.S.R. supply 30% of all Cuba's electricity, 95% of its steel...
...only way of achieving integration. Others feel it is about to disappear, simply because it does not work or because they resent Government control. Proponents correctly note that just such Government control, as law, has been the main cause of school integration in the U.S. since the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision. A third of American children now go to school in districts that have adopted desegregation plans. Both those who favor busing and those who hate it hardened their positions long ago, remaining as closed to argument as if they had borrowed earplugs from the Columbus cops...
...academic benefits of desegregation are harder to measure. In 1974 a bi-racial school-system committee decided that it did not want to keep track of black vs. white academic progress in St. Petersburg for fear that unfair comparisons would be made. "There is no way to say whether students have benefited from desegregation," says Thomas Tocco, assistant superintendent of the Pinellas school district. "Frankly, I would not even venture a guess...
...vs. Princeton...
...vs. Conn...