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...Opinion polls from the ABAC and Suan Dusit survey centers, however, consistently show that the majority of Thais want all political street demonstrations to end. And in Monday's Bangkok Post, Pornsil Patcharintanakul, deputy secretary general of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, was quoted as saying, "We strongly disagree if the government bows to the protesters' demands and dissolves the parliament, as all efforts to recoup the fragile economy would be back to square...
...Jose State College as a political-science major. Three and a half years ago, he landed an executive job with the newly formed Association of Bay Area Governments, a government-funded organization that was pioneering a regional approach to Northern California's problems. As it turned out, ABAC might have been designed to finance the flings of Tom Truax...
Brown-Paper Bonanza. Apparently it was absurdly easy for Truax to bilk ABAC. The organization had started out as a struggling discussion group seven years ago, depending on small fixed donations from its membership, which now numbers 87 cities and eight Bay Area counties; its financial practices were informal to the point of being nonexistent. In 1965, the new U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development decided to back ABAG's cooperative philosophy, named the embryonic outfit its regional planning agency and showered it with lucre. All told, HUD gave ABAC $1,080,000, sending checks in plain brown...
...left to rot where it grew. United Fruit, first lord of the banana empire, maintained its dividends mainly through revenue from ships and Cuban sugar estates. In Central America, United helped make up for U.S. losses of Manila hemp (and incidentally kept Central Americans employed) by cultivating needed abac...
Reconversion. Gone-according to Sam Zemurray-are the reckless, nomadic days of banana planting when United Fruit used to rip out railway tracks from diseased plantations, leaving laborers to shift for themselves in the jungle. Now, rather than let its wartime abacá acreage go back to bush, United Fruit plans to let laborers have the land (which it got for little or nothing) and raise abacá as a peacetime "peasant crop." In 1944 the company opened an agricultural school at El Zamorano, Honduras, to train scientific dirt farmers free of charge...