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Lack of Unity. To commodity-exporting nations, many of them underdeveloped, the price break has a far different significance. For Chile, a penny-a-pound decline in the price of copper means the loss of $11 million in potential export earnings; Zambia loses even more. The producer nations are now planning cartels, modeled after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, to set and enforce minimum prices. Chile, Peru, Zaire and Zambia have tried to organize a copper cartel, and seven nations, including Australia, Guinea, Jamaica and Yugoslavia, recently formed the International Bauxite Association to prop up prices for that...
Fourteen other nations are potential members of the club: Algeria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, Libya, North Korea, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and Venezuela. Though they are not nearly as advanced as the first group, they could become atomic powers by the end of the century-and sooner if they decide that it serves their interests...
...beginning of next year, most Latin American countries will probably have recognized the Castro regime. The only diehards in the hemisphere are expected to be the rightist regimes of Brazil, Bolivia, Chile and Paraguay...
...Mexico never cut its ties with Cuba. The leftist government of Salvador Allende Gossens in Chile re-established relations with Cuba in 1970, but they were severed again last year after Allende was toppled by a right-wing military coup...
...trials dragged on for 3½ months with the pretense of being fair and objective proceedings. Foreign observers, including former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, were allowed into the courtroom, and all 65 defendants were permitted to have counsel. So anxious -at least outwardly-was Chile's eleven-month-old junta to demonstrate its system of justice that there was speculation that Supreme Head of State Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, an army general, would let the political prisoners off with relatively light sentences. Not so. Last week four of the men were condemned to death, two to life imprisonment...