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Interspersed among these statements and scenes of life in Chile--a young boy herding cattle on the pampas, the copper mines, a country road--Avenue presents the framework in which the U.P. government operated. Without becoming overly technical, the film gives the basic facts of Chile's history and economy: a history of domination by an elite working closely with American capital, an economy based on the extraction of raw materials and exploitation of cheap labor. In 1969, two-thirds of the Chilean people lived on less than $2 a day; 600,000 children had brain damage from malnutrition...
...rebel retreat, from within 20 miles of the copper-mining center of Kolwezi, had started even before the government "offensive." As they probed slowly westward, with Moroccans providing back-up support and removing antipersonnel mines from the dirt tracks en route, Zaïrian forces encountered practically no resistance. There was not a single major firefight and hardly a contact of any kind. "This isn't a war," one bored Moroccan officer confided. "It is a matter of making armed reconnaissance and then retaking ground without a fight. To call it a war is a joke...
Edwin Dowell, a spokesman for Kennecott Copper Corp., which has made the highest-grade copper strike ever in Alaska, sounded an even more alarming note. Said he: "Withdrawals of public lands have reached such proportions that our national security already may be jeopardized." Oil companies, already drilling on Alaska's North Slope, want a chance at least to prospect the potential parklands, and loggers are casting avid eyes on Alaska's timber resources...
SOLAR heating and cooling units could enjoy a sunburst of popularity if Congress approves the program's offer of tax credits to householders and businesses that install them. Among the more prominent firms making solar equipment are Grumman, Revere Copper and Owens-Illinois. The market is huge, according to William Matlock, president of Sunpower Systems. If Congress passes the tax-credit measure, Matlock asserts, the President's 1985 goal of 2.5 million homes heated and cooled by solar energy could be accomplished before...
...murky conflict that some Africans have dubbed "the Termite War." Neither side seemed able to do any more than nibble away at the other. But last week government troops not only halted the advance of the ragtag invasion army toward Kolwezi, the center of Zaïre's copper-mining district, but also took the initiative for the first time. By week's end, government spokesmen were claiming that "a general offensive against all enemy positions" was under way with the primary purpose of recapturing the towns of Mutshatsha and Kapanga...