PAGE 4, THE TOWNSMAN, Thuraday, July 14, 1977 |

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a Heavy rains have prevented

’ Cuba's vital sugar harvest

from coaching production
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‘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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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

0

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
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LANIGAN’S RABBI
Lanigan and Rabbi Small have
doubts abou! the guilt of an.
Impoverished woman accused
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THE MIRACLE
{WB ‘59) Carroll Saker, Rog -
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(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-:

| Mined to expose an organization

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

demanding sk .
Reese indoriteble Pe

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