Word: copperizing
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Karamojong women may sport a beaded apron or cowhide mini-breech-cloth, but the men will suffer nothing more than metal bangles or an eagle's feather in the hair, earrings and a few copper neckbands. Concerned that such casual garb would make Uganda appear backward, the country's ebullient President, General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin, decreed that the tribesmen should don shirts, trousers and shoes. The order struck the Karamojongs as an act of naked repression. Village chiefs who tried to read Amin's declaration ("Nakedness is neither in your interest nor in the interests...
...phrase "catchup increases" is being heard more and more these days in labor negotiations. Inflation has eaten away at the dollar so relentlessly that workers are demanding retroactive cost of living increases just to keep even with rising prices. Last week high settlements in the telephone and copper industries and in the postal service continued the trend. And there is little doubt that the philosophy of catching up is playing a major role in the steel talks that are now under way to replace the industry's current labor contract, which will expire this Saturday...
...Jockeying. There is already considerable disagreement over the value of the copper properties in Chile. The three companies claim that they have invested more than $1 billion; the government-controlled Chilean State Copper Corp. has set the figure at $724 million; and Allende, probably with tongue in cheek, puts it at $80 million. Obviously, some jockeying for good bargaining positions is under...
...tall order. Peru was long overdue for a social overhaul. Only three years ago, giant foreign concerns and a few rich Peruvian families still had a hammer lock on the economy, controlling vast sugar estates that sometimes stretched for a quarter of a million acres, or running huge copper, zinc and silver mines where laborers worked for a little over...
...economy can certainly use a magic trick. Inflation was held last year to less than 6%, and fish-meal exports rose to the highest tonnage ever. But the world price of copper, Peru's most important foreign-exchange earner, has dropped from 700 in March...