Castro vows to pay Cuba's debts despite hard year
Fidel Castro told a Havana crowd that Cuba will sacrifice to honor a debt of about 2.5 billion dollars. He blamed falling sugar prices for reduced foreign exchange and import curbs. In other notes, Peace Corps invites about one in four applicants, with roughly 60 percent acceptance and four of five trainees going abroad.
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Notion of Profits Frictions in Soviet Union
A William L. Ryan report examines Khrushchev’s tightrope between Marxist doctrine and profit incentives in the Soviet Union. Debates on profits rise as centralized planning limits and a plan quota system provoke calls for lower center control and greater factory initiative amid military and armaments priorities.
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