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Several days after I arrived in Havana I asked my host why all the toilet seats were missing. “We don’t use them here,” he replied, as if it were an…

by Patrick Symmes,

Pinching pesos and dropping pounds in Havana

by Daniel Rothenberg,

In an oil-rich nation, Iraqis wait for their share

by Patrick Symmes,

A Cuban ration book shows a country short on resources but long on resourcefulness

by Harper’s Staff,

by Kurt Solmssen,

Why it is an economic and political necessity

Part IV.--Food pilgrims and profiteers

by Arthur Bullard,

Impressions of topsy-turvy Russia