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...which will train the Argentine middle class in special entreprenurial skills. Finally there are those who remember the days when England owned all the Argentine transport system and many of the valuable resources. This is the group which is against any U.S. investment because it probably will exploit a resource Argentina is already rich in instead of developing an industry the country needs. Romero says that he finds himself somewhere between the second and third groups...
Other efforts for "institutional reform" are directed against merchants and landlords who allegedly exploit the poor. "What do those ... think they're doing suing me," one mercant supposedly fumed when told of a test case against him for unfair selling practices...
...these factors combined to create an uncertainty, a vacuum of aggressive power, that Lenin's hard-eyed coalition of workers and soldiers could exploit. Backed by Trotsky and the youthful Iosif Stalin, Lenin late in October sent his armed Bolsheviks to take over all the main government buildings in Petrograd. Kerensky's government was besieged in the Winter Palace. When it refused to surrender, the cruiser Aurora fired a warning blank, the palace was stormed, and the Cabinet arrested-save for Kerensky, who managed to escape. The coup d'état was complete in Petrograd; democracy...
Ever since it was founded in 1960, Liberator has been building up to antiSemitism. From white-baiting, it passed to the baiting of moderate Negroes and finally to Jew-baiting. Jewish merchants exploit Harlem Negroes, screams Liberator; Jewish liberals have sold out the civil-rights movement...
...pumping a modest 100,000 bbl. a day, BP Bunker Hunt ranks fifth among the majors operating in Libya. But it has enormous potential, because of its concessions in the huge Sarir field. To exploit its holding, BP Bunker Hunt has built a capacious crude-oil pipeline leading from its rigs in the Sarir to Marsa Hariga. Running 320 miles, the 34-in., multimillion-dollar line could ultimately carry almost 1,000,000 bbl. at a clip. It is buried six feet beneath the dunes in order to keep the oil liquid during the chill desert nights. The pipeline runs...