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Chile: Owner of the Future When the Chilean Congress unanimously passed a constitutional amendment last week nationalizing the copper mines, the whole country went on an emotional tear. Newspapers, billboards and walls blossomed with the slogan...
...Chile has put on its long pants! Finally the copper is ours...
...President Salvador Allende pro claimed a Day of National Dignity and declared: "Now we will be the owners of our own future, truly the masters of our destiny." Chileans confidently predicted that under state management copper pro duction will jump to 840,000 tons this year, compared with 640,000 tons in 1970, and the projection is not considered unrealistic...
...amendment will affect three large American copper companies - Anacon-UP, da, Kennecott and Cerro Corp. - which have been partners with the Chilean government in the nation's five largest mines. (The government announced last week that it would also buy out the Chil ean operations of the Bank of America and the Bank of London.) Though copper nationalization was clearly a victory for Allende, one he has sought ever since he began his quest for the presidency 19 years ago, he was not altogether happy with the law as passed. The President had wanted indemnification to be paid over...
...different cultures is part of the creative process itself. His appetite for curios and marvels was enormous, and it filled his baggage with every imaginable sort of junk. Dürer once impetuously swapped a whole portfolio of engravings and woodcuts for "five snail shells, four silver and five copper medals, two dried fishes, a white coral, four reed arrows and a red coral," as well as a large shark's fin that one of his friends, a vicar, had to lug all the way home to Nuremberg. Even the disease that ruined his health, malaria, was a souvenir: a mosquito...