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FROM
CUBA
Old U.S. refrigerators must be changed for
Chinese models
HAVANA, March 17 (Jaime Leygonier / www.cubanet.org)
- Residents owning old American-made refrigerators
must trade them in for new Chinese models.
President Fidel Castro issued the order
last year as a means of cutting the consumption
of electricity, the Chinese models presumably
being more efficient than the old U.S. ones.
However, some residents say the old models
work better. "I have a 1951 refrigerator
that works like it did on the first day
and I don't plan to change it," said
one resident.
The government made a house-to-house census
of refrigerators to get an estimate of how
many Chinese models would be needed.
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