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Castro's Jaunt To the Kremlin Under Analysis
By Phil Newsom
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Fidel Castro's sudden appearance in Moscow inevitably has led to speculation that his visit is connected with the United States-Panama crisis and the means to exploit it for Communism.
But it could well be that other reasons dictated the trip and that Panama will come into the talks only as an added starter.
It may be recalled that Castro's last visit to Moscow, in April, also came as a surprise and then, as now, came shortly after agreement on Soviet-Cuban trade for the coming year.
ONE SOVIET objective was to assure Castro's loyalty in the quarrel with Red China.
From the Soviet stanpoint, the visit was only partially successful. IN AUGUST, Castro announced sugar cane and cattle raising will be "the pillars of our economy until 1970," indicating he had agreed to Soviet demands that he integrate his economy with the Communist bloc.
Another was to discourage Castro's ambition for quick industrialization of his island at the expense of agriculture.
So far as Khrushchev's quarrel with Red China was concerned, Castro has continued to practice a peculiar neutrality which recognized dependence on the Soviet Union on the one hand but more frequently sounded the Red Chinese hard-line than the Khrushchev policy of coexistence.
THEIR 1962 agreement called for an exchange totalling $750 million but actually came to only a little more than $500 million.
Cuba is committed to sell the Soviet Union and the Communist bloc countries 4,860,000 tons of sugar annually through 1965. She failed to meet her 1962 quota and fell short by at least half of the agreed amount in 1963.
From the beginning, trade with Cuba has been a losing proposition for the Soviets.
In addition, as a price for Castro's loyalty, the Russians reported agreed in December, 1962, to permit Castro to divert a million tons of sugar to the world market in order to raise desperately needed foreign exchange.
MEANWHILE, the Russians are believed to be pouring $1 million per day into Cuba, contributing even more to an ever-growing deficit.
The sugar deal is unsatisfactory both to Castro and to the Russians. First, the Russians have not been getting it. Second, what they do get they pay for at the rate of six cents a pound. This makes it also unsatisfactory to Castro who could get more than 10 cents for it on the world market.
Both the Soviet Union and Castro are anxious that the United States raise its embargo on Cuban trade.
THIS WOULD be one good reason for Khrushchev to discourage Castro from taking full advantage of the Panama crisis.
Another would be Khrushchev's own desire that nothing interfere either with his U.S. wheat deal or his desire for continued improvement in his own relations with the United States.
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TODAY
SUA Minority Opinions Forum, 4:30
p.m., Forum. Copyright 1986; Film:
Educational Encounter, 1981.
Catholic Mass. 5 p.m. St. Lawrence Chapel. 10 a.m. Lawrence will be on "Friendly Topics" lecture today.
Newman Club Picture, 7.30 p.m., Union Ball Room. Suits and ties will be the
Newman Executive Council, 8:30 p.m.
St. Lawrence Center, 1910 Stratford Rd.
SNEA. 7:30 p.m., 303 Bailey. Panel on student teaching.
Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m.
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Catholic Masses 6.45 a.m. 5 p.m. St.
Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Stratford Rd.
TOMORROW
Latter-Day Saints Institute of Religion,
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Christian Science Organization. 7:30
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An experimental sociology course, "Comparative Studies," is the only sociology course offered in the United States that is not oriented to a Western view-point, according to its professor.
Sociology Course is Oriented Toward Eastern Cultures
Now completing its first semester as an experimental course under KU's Ford Foundation grants, the course is designed to expand the international dimension in KU's humanities and social science programs.
"The purpose of the course is to make the students appreciate non- Western societies within their own frame of reference," commented Norman Jacobs, associate professor of East Asian Area Studies.
Westerner for students in India.
The text is unique, Prof. Jacobs said, in that it was written by a
The class is small and has been limited to a select group of freshman honors students this semester. Plans are for expanding the size of the class and offering it to a larger number of freshmen.
Prof, Jacobs, who has studied in India, Iran, Taiwan, and Japan, said he teaches the course as if he were
teaching in an Eastern country.
He requires his students to examine the institutional structure of a complex society. By taking this approach the class is more oriented to sociology than anthropology, Prof. Jacobs said.
The professor noted that anthropologists study more primitive and hence less complex cultures.
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