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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better the Iraqis' lot. Farmers, unsure whether the government will go through with land reform, have cut back on their planting. Eggs have tripled in price, rice costs 50% more, and wheat has become so scarce that authorities had to import 45,000 tons from Turkey two months ago to meet a bread shortage...
...days when Indonesia was one of the first countries in the world to recognize Red China. By last week the Times of Indonesia was demanding the expulsion of Red China's Ambassador Huang Chen. Radio Peking had its own pat explanation of what had gone wrong: "Some time ago, the U.S. sent a special agent pretending to be a scientist to Indonesia to fan up an anti-China campaign . . ." But the truth was that if Mao and Chen Yi and Ambassador Huang were themselves U.S. secret agents, they could hardly have done a better job of arousing neutralist Indonesia...
Fighting growing Red influence, the moderates had been meeting every Thursday with Castro for skull sessions warning that his monstrous agrarian reform was devouring the Cuban economy. A few weeks ago, Pazos, Ray and Perez found that they were being followed by Castro's secret police and guessed that the game was lost. Only López Fresquet survived the shakeup, and he had already asked to be allowed to resign next month. To replace Ray, Castro for the first time named an open Communist, Osmani Cienfuegos, brother of missing Army Chief Camilo Cienfuegos, who only a few weeks...
...prone Habaneros, accustomed to doing business in local branches of New York banks, promptly dubbed the institution "Che's National Bank." *Who a fortnight ago joined Che's and Raúl's wives as stars at a Communist-sponsored Women's Congress in Santiago, Chile...
Calculated Threats. A few weeks ago, this kind of violence had the approval of the clique of rich bluebloods who control Panama's government and businesses. Over the radio and in newspapers, they deliberately stirred up greater hatred for the U.S. after the Nov. 3 riots. Easily swaying the ignorant, ragged masses of the lower classes, the "oligarchy" (in the Panamanian expression) set out to force concessions from the U.S., chiefly greater purchases of zone supplies from Panamanian merchants, a bigger rental for the Canal Zone...