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Great emphasis is now placed on diversifying the structure of the agricultural sector. The revolutionary planners are now pushing citrus fruit production. In the last three years, Cubans have planted twice as many citrus trees on the Isle of Pines and in the wsetern province of Pinar del Rio as there are in Israel--one of the world's largest fruit exporters. These trees are now beginning to yield the first heavy crops of oranges, lemons and grapefruit...
While the internal Cuban investment in economic development is being channeled into the agricultural sector, basic industries necessary for the nation's other economic needs are being encouraged. A new electrial plant at Mariel in Havana province has just been opened. Next spring two cement plants will begin operation. The opening of these cement plants, which the Cubans say will meet all their requirements, is crucial. For when cement production rises, serious work on the appalling shortage of decent rural housing can begin in earnest...
...Titles. Boyden finds and places some 200 high-level managers a year-all at salaries above $25,000 annually. Currently, there are enough Boyden enlistees roaming U.S. executive suites to staff the private sector of a middle-sized nation. Among the top ones to whom Boyden points: Presidents Virgil Boyd of Chrysler, Arthur Larkin Jr. of General Foods, Stuart Silloway of Investors Diversified Services, John L. Gushman of Anchor Hocking Glass; Chairman A. King McCord of Westinghouse Air Brake; Presidents and Chairmen Harold S. Geneen of ITT, Robert O. Fickes of Philco-Ford...
...Foreign Ministry. He is Klaus Schiütz, 41, a native Berliner who, as a student in 1948, helped found the Free University in West Berlin in protest against dictatorial Communist policies at the old Berlin University in the city's East sector. He seemed well-suited to talk some reason into the heads of West Berlin's cold-war-weary Socialists...
...Federation of Teachers Leader Albert Shanker had so far escaped penalties (see EDUCATION). Most labor-law scholars agree that there are only two ways to remedy the situation. Either strikes by public employees must be allowed, or tough penalties must be imposed and enforced against unions that call public-sector strikes. The choice could be made differently for essential personnel (police, firemen) and nonessential personnel (clerks, maintenance men). But it must be made, since the whetted appetite of public employees for greater benefits means that strikes will come with greater frequency...