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...Cuba's dependence on the Soviet Union, which has enabled Castro to survive the OAS embargo and gives the Soviets their only toehold in the Americas, is becoming increasingly burdensome to both Havana and Moscow. The Cubans owe the Russians at least $4 billion, and the debt grows by about $1.5 million daily. The Soviets would like to be rid of this economic drain, and now, in an era of détente with the U.S., they have apparently given up any hope-for the present at least-of turning Cuba into an offensive military base. Castro no doubt...
...ties before the U.S., not after, in order to avoid the appearance that they are slavishly following Washington. This spring the State Department went so far as to grudgingly allow Argentine subsidiaries of U.S. auto companies to sell 42,000 vehicles to Cuba, a clear violation of the trade embargo...
...minimum program consisting of little more than a stand-by allocation and stockpiling plan and efforts to import more oil from the countries least likely to join in an Arab-type embargo...
...free enterprise." Among his opinions: new wage-price controls would hamper steel production; the U.S. should "close the gates" on exports of steel scrap (presumably because they tend to keep supplies down and prices up at home); it would be a "tragedy" if the U.S. reimposed an embargo on imports of Rhodesian chrome; and there is only one way that American industry can raise the capital it needs to expand-"more profits...
...During Israel's 1948 war for independence, he smuggled nine war-surplus C-46s and a Constellation out of the U.S. to Israel (on the pretext of starting a civilian line in Panama), then surrendered to the FBI and was fined $10,000 for violating the U.S. arms embargo to Palestine. The smuggling helped create the Israeli Air Force, in which Schwimmer served as its first chief engineer. After the war, he set up his own aircraft servicing business in Burbank, Calif., but David Ben-Gurion persuaded him to return to organize what eventually became I.A.I. Says Schwimmer...