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a Heavy rains have prevented

’ Cuba's vital sugar harvest

from coaching production e

‘The treacherous weather conditions hampered the collection of the sugar cane, . .on which Cuba relies for 80 per cent of its foreign

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ginning of the harvest in De- cember until its end in June,

There are indications that huge efforts by workers during the later stages did ‘mouch to recover losses. Although serious shortfalls once appeared possible, eventually eight of the 14 provinces completed production plans.

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Cuba maintains secrecy over sugar, its basic source of development finance, and

ublishes no production

ures or targets. Oificial sources, however, say the average harvest in the last three years has been six

_ Tnillion tons and targets are.

thought to be above this figure. :

resident Fidel Castro said in May that although

the country would not reach- its production goal this year-

it would get satisfactorily near it, MACHINES IMPEDED Cuban authorities made no secret of the problems the climate was causing and issued repeated and urgent calls to workers to overcome the difficulties. Much of the onus for recovery fell on the manual

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PRODUCTION FALLS SHORT

’s frosting fields fail?

cane cutters who in some areas even had to replace the mechanical harvesters

‘which were impeded by the

wet conditions.

Anindication of the efforts made by manual workers was an increase in the number or of cane-cutting brigades which became “‘millionaires”’ this year. These are the brigades which cut more than one million arrobas of cane. An arroba is equivalent to 23.35 pounds.

’. Last year there were 1,368 -“millionaire’ brigades but

this year there were 1,469.

Early in the harvest the official newspaper Granma mentioned problems of low productivity and absenteeiam among cane- cutters in some regions, but

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there were no such reports later on.

One factor which may help Cuba cope with adverse conditions is the gradual modernization its grinding mills and equipment. ‘ PROBLEMS CONTINUE

Mechanical harvesting is also slowly reducing the number of workers needed

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in the cane fields. This year some 38 cent of the cane was cut by machine.

The main problems with

the mechanical harvesters, said, include insufficient preparation of ©

the fields where they were . -

used neg difficulty syn 0 eir operations, Cuba withdrew from selling on the world sugar market in January, saying its sugar loading facilities. were saturated following the arrangement of huge sales to traditional customers. Much of the island's crop goes tothe Soviet Union at ices favorable to Cuba. present world market rice has plummeted and, ranma said, is below Cuba’s cost of production. However, Cuba still wishes to sell on the open market to earn hard currency to buy the goods it needs from capitalist world, J!

LANIGAN’S RABBI Lanigan and Rabbi Small have doubts abou! the guilt of an. Impoverished woman accused of murdering her uncle, a rich but miserly eccentric.’ Guest stars George Gobel, Virginia AAayo. THE MIRACLE {WB ‘59) Carroll Saker, Rog - Moore, Vittorio. Gassman, Walter Slezak. ee ‘oung .postulant . torn if love for & man and love for religion struggles fo find her-

self. From play by. Karl Volimoelter.. ; THE

GREAT TAXICAB STAMPEDE . 7 ‘Although Marshal McCloud {Dennis Weaver) Is falsely accused In the slaying of a New

_ York cabble, and drug dealer, It

makes no difference fo the dead man‘s vengeance-seeking sister (Jane Seymour), a battle-tested - Israell soldier, J.D. Cannon and Terry Carter ara featured. George Hamilton guest-stars in this repeat of 1-16-77. .

NIGHT TERROR

Valerie Harper stars In, this World Pramiere suspense . drama about a_terror-stricken’ woman who, after witnessing -

the. slaying of a highway -

patrolman, flees In her ear Into the night, pursued closely by the psychepathic killer (Richard Romanus). Michaol Tolan and | Nicholas Pryor co-star.

ASSASSINATION BUREAU

(Par ‘69) Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg. Telly Savalas, Curt Jurgens. Directed by @asil Dearden. Evurope-190e: A newspaperwoman is dater-:

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which she believes to be a group of assassins for hire. She engages the services of the organization naming their. leader as her victim. He ac- cepts the challenge telling the other members of the bureau to try and kill him before he kills them. Rated PG In theatres. .

away all boats _ Stars Jeff Chandler, Geo. Nader, Julle Adams. War (|: U.S.S. Balinda, untried

_atiack transport, commanded

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