poor economic conditions. Unable to find jobs or housing, they must put off marriage and starting families. Others feeling the pinch include un- skilled workers, thanks in part to Havana's planned shrinkage of the construction industry. Only rural Cubans-beneficiaries of land re-forms and tax breaks-seem to remain loyal to their leader.
It is premature to declare "a crisis of socialism in Cuba," says Fer- nandez. But the Freedom Flotilla carried storm warnings for Castro.
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the overthrow of the Fascist autocracy.
Czechoslovakia: "Husak's Czechoslovakia and Economic
Stagnation," Vladimir V. Kusin, in
Problems of Communism (May-June,
1982), Superintendent of Documents.
U.S. ~overnment Printing Office, Wash- ington, D.C. 20404.
The economic outlook for Czechs during the 1980s is bleak, says Kusin, a senior research analyst for Radio Free Europe. Already, even by op- timistic official accounts, per capita income growth is at a standstill.
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