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Words & Consequences. In their new nervousness, U.S. investors have become extremely sensitive to any Latin American interference with private enterprise. Last year the Mexican government bought out the electric power and motion picture distribution industries. A month ago the Mexican Congress passed a law designed to compel the U.S. and British concerns that own most of Mexico's mines to sell control of their properties to Mexican interests within the next 25 years. Such moves help explain why new U.S. investment in Mexico was only $11 million in 1960 v. $14 million in 1959 and a whopping $80 million...
...coin or a bill in an offering box, then peered through a tiny glass window. Inside, on a hard mattress, lay Sant Fateh Singh, 50-year-old Sikh holy man. While doctors and disciples stood anxious watch, Sant Fateh Singh was carrying on a hunger strike. Its aim: to compel the Indian government to create a separate linguistic state in the Punjab, traditional home of the Sikhs...
...official Russian policy is that in due time, as the food supplies in state stores become more plentiful and cheaper, private gardening and the keeping of cows and chickens, etc.. will wither away. There is as yet no evidence this is happening. Despite an official campaign to compel private farmers to sell all livestock to the state, a third of the beef cattle, half of the milkers, and four-fifths of the goats are still peasant-owned...
...soil; by putting the squeeze on Berlin; by wild out bursts at the United Nations which may suggest to many people that Krushchev is as mad as Hitler--in these and other ways, the Soviet rulers may so terrify and disorganize the peoples of the West that they will compel their governments to give in without reciprocal concessions...
Later, when a Cairo journalist self-importantly asked what Afro-Asians might do to compel the big powers to get together to end the cold war, the Pakistan President said crisply: "The best thing we can do is to behave peacefully among ourselves and stop disturbing each other's peace. All Asians and Africans are not angels, you know...