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...Barrientos, Bolivia's President from 1964 to 1969, who received a $ 110,000 helicopter from Gulf in exchange for doing what he could to forestall nationalization and assure the company of lucrative drilling rights in Bolivia. (Barrientos died in a helicopter crash six years ago; officials assert the chopper was not the craft purchased by Gulf.) Still to be accounted for are two additional payments of $240,000 and $110,000 to Barrientos supporters...
Political Awareness. There is also concern, at least among whites, that once the Portuguese presence is gone, old tribal differences may assert themselves. To offset this danger, Frelimo officials have been conducting a political awareness campaign all over the country, 90% of whose people are illiterate. Teams of young recruits have scoured bush villages to advertise Frelimo's political and social doctrines-no drunkenness, only one wife, equal rights for women (Frelimo has women soldiers and one woman Cabinet member...
Unfortunately, instead of addressing such points, the authors depart on flights of exaggeration that turn Global Reach into an overreach. Breathlessly capitalizing nouns, they assert that multinationals are run by World Managers who aim to create a Global Shopping Center or One Great Market. That Global
Shopping Center, the authors assert, is the beginning of a new world hegemony of the World Managers, a monolithic group totally agreed on how to conduct the planet's affairs. "What World Managers want from the American State," the authors say, "is a low military profile and a much more aggressive foreign economic policy." And "some corporate executives talk of building a 'belt of capitalism,' which will tie the U.S.S.R. and China into an integrated global system...
That the government should even care what a singing group's politics are is typical of its small-mindedness. And for the Parts embassy to assert at the last minute that the group's association with the Communist Youth Organization Party of Chile made the singers members of the Communist Party shows that the old Red Scare tactics are still thriving...