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...beginning by limiting discriminatory practices like segregation at public facilities, lifting bans against mixed sports and recognizing some black trade unions. But even these tentative reforms have angered many whites and set off a spasm of soul searching over the future course of the country that provides so much chromium, manganese, platinum and vanadium, which are so valuable to the West. Says Journalist Tertius Myburgh: "It is no longer a question of whether Afrikanerdom will split politically. It has already split...
...National Defense Stockpile was started in 1939 and grew rapidly during the Korean War, when the U.S. committed $8 billion to expand production of some 90 strategic materials and subsequently stockpiled them in more than 100 locations around the U.S. Manganese and chromium were stored in huge outdoor dumps, and rubber was cached in refrigerated warehouses. The goal was to have enough material to sustain military production and meet industrial needs during a three-year...
Administration officials now worry that the Soviet Union, which has large strategic minerals resources, plans to reduce exports and step up purchases on the world market in competition with the West. That could endanger U.S. supplies of chromium and platinum, for example. A study by Dr. Daniel Fine of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Mining and Minerals Research Institute concluded last year that the Soviet Union is becoming a net purchaser of key minerals as a way of protecting its own reserves. Said Interior Secretary James Watt: "Our dependence on foreign supplies jeopardizes our defense posture. We think...
Rebuilding the stockpile, however, is likely to run into some serious foreign policy complications. The U.S. has become dependent on the countries of southern Africa for seven key materials (platinum metals, manganese, chromium, cobalt, industrial diamonds, fluorspar and antimony). The U.S. gets 53% of its platinum from white-ruled South Africa, for example, and 42% of its cobalt from black-run Zaire. A pronounced policy tilt toward either country could antagonize the other and thus endanger supplies...
...Pentagon begins drawing together the equipment required to shape up the 100,000-man Rapid Deployment Force that Carter wants. Production bottlenecks are inevitable, explained Weidenbaum, because supply shortages exist in everything from specialty steels to castings and forgings. Additionally, a host of strategic minerals such as manganese, chromium and titanium, must be imported, and disruption of supply is an obvious danger...