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Cubans in Guyana...
...only recently argued that the danger of subversion from Havana was over. Venezuela, for example, led a fight within the Organization of American States to drop hemispheric sanctions against Havana. Now President Carlos Andrés Péres frets over reports of several hundred Cuban soldiers in nearby Guyana, a socialist state with which Venezuela for many years had a border dispute...
...producer states possess an enormous potential for disrupting the flow of vital materials to developed countries. Four countries (Chile, Peru, Zambia and Zaire) control fully 80% of the exportable copper in the world; two (Bolivia and Malaysia) account for 70% of the tin; another four (Jamaica, Guinea, Surinam and Guyana) are responsible for 95% of the bauxite exports. Organized in cartels, these producer states could boycott industrialized countries or engage in disastrous price gouging...
Producers of other materials, too, are now banding together to try to lift prices. Countries that possess iron ore (including Venezuela and Brazil) and seven bauxite producers (Guinea, Guyana, Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Surinam, Australia and Yugoslavia) are talking about forming cartels. Coffee-producing nations hope to control prices by reducing exports from the Central American republics. Oil-rich Venezuela promises to make up their short-term losses in revenues with subsidies from a special investment fund...
...Bruins were considered from the start of the season as shoo-ins for the championship. Brown is loaded with individual talent, such as high-scoring sophomore Fred Pereira, goalkeeper Mike Hampden, an All-American candidate from Guyana, back Jose Vidente, who also kicks field goals for the football team, as well as 13 returning lettermen from the Bruin team that went all the way to the NCAA semifinals in Miami last season...