Castro Rebuffed: Ike Acts To Cut Cuba Sugar Quota
Castro Rebuffed: Ike Acts To Cut Cuba Sugar Quota
Castro Rebuffed. In response to the calculated hostility of Fidel Castro's regime, President Dwight D. Eisenhower cuts Cuba's assigned share of the U.S. sugar market by 95%. Good news to other world sugar producers, but a costly blow to Cuba which receives a premium over the world market price. Castro is expected to react to the $92 million loss with new seizures of American property. MS - Ike speaks (no nat sound) at White House press conference. Reporters take notes. MS - Cuba men hack away at plants with machetes. Harvest. Farmers transport the stuff via carts drawn by cattle, also by tractor. CUS - Field hands really cutting away. MLS - Oxen pulling sugar cane that's laying on a wagon. MS - Two men sitting on a tractor pulling sugr cane wagons.