Word: controls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suited young Arab technicians dominated the first Arab Petroleum Congress in Cairo last week. The 420 delegates looked at the $6,000,000 worth of machinery exhibits and held seminars in drilling techniques-but their real interest was oil politics. The Arabs were out for more money and more control over their oil (the Middle East has two-thirds of the world's supply). In the Cairo hotel lobbies, the man everyone wanted to see was a Saudi Arabian with a bright, quick smile, and a profile as sharp as a scimitar...
...cotton, a kerosene lamp, a bicycle-it is almost invariably an Indian dukah wallah in a filthy, tin-roofed shop that sells to him. In Kenya, Asians pay one-third of the colony's indirect taxes and run some of Nairobi's smartest shops; in Zanzibar they control the clove market; in Tanganyika they dominate the economy. In Uganda, where before the war Indians were responsible for as much as 90% of the trade, there is a saying: "Europeans have the power, Africans have the land, and the Asians have the money...
...Until Congress took notice, ICA headquarters in Washington seemed almost indifferent to the shenanigans in Laos, and slow to investigate thoroughly. Representative Porter Hardy Jr. of Virginia, chairman of the subcommittee, last week indignantly suggested abolition of ICA altogether, and a fresh start for foreign aid under State Department control...
...Cuba will bear careful watching in the months ahead. It remains to be seen whether Castro can control the forces he has let loose (executions continue with increased zeal and with new capital crimes invented all the time) and, equally important, whether he can institute programs for economic and social reform which will keep him in and Communists out of power. Observers have pointed out that Cuba could prove "another Iraq," with revolution by pro-Western forces proving merely the prologue to inceased Communist control...
Attacking control of policy decisions by administrators and trustees, Flemming called on scholars to take a more active role in formulating non-academic policy. He also suggested that colleges make a greater effort to present to Congress their views on legislation concerning education...