Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chile's government is conservative, but the popular trend is toward nationalization of copper mines owned by U.S. companies. A powerful and worrisome Communist Party controls 30% of Chilean voters, but Chile remains a solid U.S. friend...
Outcome of the election was a fore gone conclusion: a landslide victory for Kenneth Kaunda, 39, the austere, energetic minister's son who was in turn jailed by the British and later groomed by them to take over the copper-rich protectorate. Kaunda's United National Independence Party (U.N.I.P.) captured 55 of 75 seats in the legislative assembly, crushing the demoralized African National Congress Party of hard-drinking Harry Nkumbula, Kaunda's onetime mentor...
...which becomes the independent state of Malawi on July 6, has some 3,500,000 people and virtually no resources except its brilliant but megalomaniacal leader Dr. Banda. Northern Rhodesia, which will obtain full independence next fall as the state of Zambia, is loaded with mineral wealth, and its copper represents one of Africa's most profitable exports. Moderate Kenneth Kaunda's United National Independence Party seems certain to sweep the territorial elections set for Jan. 20, but Kaunda is already facing terrorist opposition from the African National Congress, led by hard-drinking Harry Nkumbula and by members...
...weather. The second is to spray antistatic chemicals on the rug. But the available antistatic sprays, which are similar to preparations for neutralizing phonograph records, are only temporarily effective and tend to leave a tacky residue that makes them get dirty more easily. The third method is to weave copper wires into the warp and woof of the carpet and then ground the whole thing onto a convenient water or radiator pipe. Since this adds about $1 to the cost per yard, it is too expensive for most offices...
Mann battled to protect such Latin American exports as copper, lead and zinc to the U.S. Between 1958 and 1960, he almost singlehanded brought the U.S. into a worldwide marketing agreement designed to end wild fluctuations in coffee prices. When President Eisenhower and then Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon got to work on the complicated hemisphere-wide development plan that later became the Alliance for Progress, Mann was a principal adviser...