Word: esso
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prospectors. In partnership with the Singapore government, Santa Fe-Pomeroy Services, Inc., a U.S. company, has leased part of an abandoned British naval base and established a humming business supplying the offshore oilmen with pipe, chemicals and even food. Shell has built a $60 million refinery in Singapore, and Esso is putting up another. An estimated 1,500 Americans have moved in, including the families of several executives who commute to Djakarta, 557 miles away...
...more developed now-Venezuela with their shiny Esso skyscrapers and widespread malnutrition, or Cuba with a shortage of Cadillacs but enough food for all? The Cuba that had one unit of housing per 12.9 inhabitants (i. e., one unit per every three families) or the Cuba that is building and providing housing free for everyone? The Cuba that was "only" 20-30 per cent illiterate or the Cuba that is now close to 0.0 per cent? The Cuba that printed 1,000,000 books in 1958 (mostly dime novels, Superman, and bad pornography) or the Cuba that printed...
...Other junta luminaries, including Mal?arezos, Minister of Coordination were also members of KYP, which is totally financed and controlled by the CIA. Richard Barniun a CIA agent instrumental in ousting the late Premier George Papadopoulos in July, 1965, returned to Athens in 1967. His front was the Esso-Pappas concern, a Greek-American gas and oil corporation. Pappas himself had professed that Greece needs a military dictatorship. The Boston Pappas Foundation, headed by Tom Pappas (a friend and leading financial backer of Spiro Agnew, formerly Anagnostopoulos, another junta enthusiast) channels CIA money into Greece. Pappas has openly avowed...