Fidel's Bikes

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By Newsweek Editors

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The preferred 1991 vehicles have arrived in Cuban showrooms: they're sleek, they're sporty - they're bicycles. Caught between rising gasoline consumption and cutbacks in oil deliveries from the Soviet Union, Fidel Castro is publicly encouraging Cubans to travel on pedal power. And, he suggested, ox carts might not be bad, either. The government expects the gas crunch to last awhile. It recently purchased a consignment of Chinese bikes and, according to some reports, may import the components for a bicycle factory.

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