Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much of the country. In the wild northeast, for example, he is accused of being responsible for ordering the murder in 1961 of Patrice Lumumba, the region's popular leftist martyr. This rancor has reportedly been translated into aid and recruits for guerrillas. How his enemies will exploit Mobutu's troubles remains to be seen-when the quagmire dries and fighting resumes...
Home Cooking. Instantly, of course, everyone sets about trying to exploit his family. The press invades the Kusters' modest flat, pretending sympathy while searching for sensation. This they find easily by twisting innocent responses to their queries into a portrait of the late Kusters as a drunken brute...
...takeover and has little support in the countryside. American support for Mobutu can only be based on economic interests--Zaire is one of the richest countries in Africa, with gold, diamond and copper deposits--mainly in Katanga--and Mobutu has consistently shown his willingness to allow American multinationals to exploit those riches. Carter and Vance seem just as willing as their predecessors--who gave Zaire $30 million last year, more than any other African state--to ignore the consequences of Mobutu's dictatorial rule over the Zairois population...
...Soviet Union, which is believed to have the world's largest deposits of gas, could become a major source of U.S. imports. The Russians have been pushing hard in recent years to exploit their vast gas reserves in Siberia, including the northern Tyumen Oblast, near the Ob Gulf, and the Urengoy field, reportedly the world's largest. Their aim: to make the Soviet Union a major exporter by 1980 (at present, so few of the reserves have been tapped that the Soviets themselves import gas from Iran). The only deal involving Americans, however, is a tentative agreement between...
...they are to win, however, each Crimson diver must produce one of his best performances. Toal and Schramm are known as finesse divers, exhibiting remarkable fluidity of form. Greacen and Gavin, on the other hand, are more powerful divers who exploit their unusual jumping ability...