Word: claims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent weeks, militant leftist students have been interrupting worship at West German Protestant churches, which they claim are unconcerned with the real problems of the world. Among other things, the demonstrators have demanded that ministers turn their services into group discussions on such topics as the immorality of capitalism. Since no pastor has yet seen fit to accept this demand, the agitators have occasionally littered the churches with copies of a bitter fiscal parody of the Lord's Prayer...
Texaco's 4,000,000-acre claim is carpeted with thick jungle fed by a 200-inch annual rainfall. As one engineer puts it: "Five hours without rain is a dry season." To make matters worse, the Orito field in Putumayo is 193 miles from the Pacific port of Tumaco, and in between loom the Andes mountains, requiring a pipeline rising to 11,450 ft. Because of the physical difficulties, development costs became prohibitive for Texaco alone, so the company formed a fifty-fifty partnership with Gulf, which supplied the necessary capital boost while Texaco handled the exploration...
...easing its dependence on coffee, which currently accounts for 60% of the country's export earnings. For the two companies, which decline to estimate the total value of the Putumayo find, the project may initiate a far-ranging cooperative exploratory effort. Texaco and Gulf have already staked a claim on 5,000,000 acres in neighboring Ecuador, where last spring they discovered a rich oil field. Geologists, moreover, venture that the Colombia-Ecuador finds are only the beginning, and that much more oil will be found along the eastern slopes of the Andes...
...Does an "arrogant" Peace Corps stand guilty of cultural imperialism? In earlier decades it was undoubtedly possible to charge the majority of Americans abroad with a comprehensive package of sins. Motives, behavior and impact were paternal or imperialist, materialist or presumptuous. But to claim today that one draft dodging friend represents 14,000 colonialists in the Peace Corps world may be politely described as wrong. The role of those Americans has changed--not to a point of perfection, certainly, but to a point where perfection is a less impossible goal...
Avatar staffers claim that the paper, which is published every two weeks, has a circulation...