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...rivers. The crystalline waters that tumble from Alps near Reichenau, Switzerland, are choked with wastes by the time they pour into the North Sea, 820 miles away. At Basel, the Rhine picks up city sewage; the chemical industries near Mannheim dump acids, oils, phenols, ammonia, dyes, chlorine, sulphate, iron, copper, bleach, cadmium and formaldehyde into its waters; the coal mines near the confluence of the Ruhr disgorge calcium deposits and sludge; the steel mills of Cologne contribute iron dross, furnace slag, oils and fats. As a result, the Rhine has come to be known as "Europe's longest sewer...
...Chile, the government of President Eduardo Frei Montalva came to terms, after weeks of negotiations, with the U.S.-owned Anaconda Company. Chile will buy 51% control of the giant copper interests of the company (see BUSINESS). It was a victory for the moderate Frei; Chile's more militant nationalists had agitated for outright expropriation of Anaconda...
...silver for the maid-Copper for the craftsman
...Anaconda Co., the world's biggest copper producer, refused two years ago to sell Chile any portion of its huge Chuquicamata and El Salvador mines, the source of 61% of the company's annual production and half of its earnings. Since then, the Latin American political winds have shifted. Last week Anaconda management decided that paid-for nationalization of the two mines, offered by moderate President Eduardo Frei, was better than the outright expropriation that Chilean leftists were demanding...
Whipping Up Emotions. Frei wants negotiation instead of legislation; Chile is unable to run the mines on its own and depends on copper for most of its foreign exchange. Still, rightists and Communists, as well as leftists within Frei's party, are preparing nationalization bills. Their demands are whipping up public emotion and may force greater concessions from Anaconda than those the company refused...