Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...Nixon Administration is aware that such an incident could cause further damage to an already fragile relationship. It is also mindful that negotiations will soon be held to determine the value of U.S. copper properties that are to be nationalized by the Chilean government. Accordingly, Washington has adopted a stance of calculated ambiguity toward Chile. Last week the Administration decided to grant Santiago $5,000,000 in credits for the purchase of paratroop equipment and a $4,000,000 C-130 military transport. It was the first new military aid since the Allende government came to power last October...
...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...