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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ On the launching pads are T-3 ICBMs, with a range of more than 5,000 miles, and the T-2 and T-4 IRBMs, with ranges of 1,600 and 1,000 miles respectively. If Soviet missile doctrine is similar to the West's, each base has...
"I shall insist on discipline with a capital D," declared Wijayananda Dahanayake when he became Prime Minister of Ceylon after the assassination of his predecessor, S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike. But soon Dahanayake was surrounded by chaos with a capital C. Hardly had Bandaranaike been buried when dark rumors spread that colleagues of...
But the U.S., if merely reacting, has lately done so intelligently. A Caribbean arms embargo coupled with an obvious show of patience toward Cuba has taken any hemisphere-wide punch out of Castro's anti-Yankee tirades. Current U.S. investment policies are increasingly based on partnership (see below). The...
In 1952 Toledo's Jeep-making Willys Motors surveyed the Brazilian market and with its distributors in Brazil organized Willys-Overland do Brasil, capitalized at $250,000, more than 50% from the U.S. mother firm, the rest from Brazilians. Now Willys do Brasil is South America's biggest...
Nabisco-Famosa. The fastest-growing kind of foreign investment in Latin America is the joint venture combining skills and capital from abroad with capital and a knowledge of markets from local citizens. In an age of nationalism, the joint venture helps to give Latin America the outside capital it needs...