Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Communists mortally hate and fear Chile's Law for the Defense of Democracy and its military pact with the U.S. The law-bars Communists from registering to vote; the pact deters exporting Chilean copper to the U.S.S.R. and its military satellites. Left-wingers have urged President Carlos Ibáñez to oppose the law and pact, but he has refused. Last week, in a blunt speech, he told...
...CHILEAN copper, held off the world market for five months, will soon be coming back again, at competitive prices. Chile has given its American-owned mining companies permission to start selling their 30,000-ton monthly production, and the new supplies may cut prices as much as 10? a lb., almost down to the pre-Korea level of about...
...general election, Huggins is virtually certain to be confirmed as the first Prime Minister, but his United Party, which is almost exclusively British, faces powerful opposition from 69,000 Boers, most of them followers of South Africa's Daniel Malan. The Boers, mostly farmer-immigrants and copper miners, joined with a group of British blimps to form the Confederate Party. They oppose Huggins' gradualist policy of black-white partnership with the drastic simplicity of apartheid (racial segregation...
...benevolent hand of the British Colonial .Office, and 2) transfers "native affairs" to a Central African Parliament dominated by local whites. Fewer than 500 Negroes are eligible to vote in next month's elections, but many more are threatening to make their protests felt through strikes in the copper belt and a campaign of passive resistance. The Negroes have the sympathy, if not the active support, of many British Laborites...
Tightly wound around the patient's head was a three-layer bandage tourniquet such as Inca and pre-Inca surgeons used. With bronze chisel and copper hammer...