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...based on South Africa's relative strength. The country produces much of what it needs, including armaments, nuclear power and more than 50% of its oil through a coal-liquefaction process. Three of its leading exports--gold, platinum and diamonds--are rare and easy to sell. Others, such as chromium and manganese, are in high demand for strategic reasons. Yet it would be wrong to conclude that South Africans are unconcerned by the debate: a recently published opinion survey of the country's whites showed that 71% believe the South African economy is not strong enough to prevent sanctions from...
...this populist style was born in 1904 in Lebanon, Ohio. He was a set designer and stage manager before he took his theatrical flair into industrial design. One of Wright's earliest and handsomest pieces, designed in the mid-'30s, was a "corn set" made of chromium-plated brass and consisting of a 5¼-in.-high melted-butter pitcher and salt and pepper shakers on a tray. His first popular hit was an assortment of spun aluminum accessories: vases, teapots, spaghetti sets and "sandwich humidors," all buffed to a pewter sheen. In a burst of breathless feature...
...unemployed. Joel begins The Nylon Curtain with "Allentown," an upbeat ode to those who are out of work in the Pennsylvanian factory town. Joel sprinkles insincere comments about broken American promises in between the vacuous refrain "And we're living here in Allentown." "Iron and coke and chromium steel," Joel chirps cheerily...
...Australia and New Zealand explored the rocky mountains of Northern Victoria Land. They found signs of such valuable metals as tantalum and lithium, used for making high-strength alloys. The Dufek Massif in the Pensacola Mountains, similar to South Africa's Bushveld, may have platinum and chromium, both strategic metals...
...spearhead of a new global strategy that breaks free of the old obsession with preparing for a war in Europe to counter more varied threats. Weinberger often speaks of the U.S. as an "island nation" heavily dependent on imports of strategic materials. For example, 90% of the chromium needed for jet engines comes from Zimbabwe or South Africa; 90% of the cobalt vital to mining and machine tools is imported, mostly from Zaire. All are vulnerable to Soviet troublemaking or internal difficulties that could shut off supplies. The most serious threat is to the Persian Gulf oilfields, which supply...