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...Imperiled Credit. Most U.S. copper men had written off the prospect of compensation long ago. Nationalization is becoming a familiar, if uncomfortable fact of life for American firms in Latin America. In the past few months, Bolivia, Peru, Guyana and Ecuador have seized U.S. holdings. Robert McNamara, president of the World Bank, warned last week that such a trend in developing countries may "seriously imperil" their ability to get credit and may discourage investment in entire regions...
...their lengthy flight plans in the final hours of the countdown. Even the Russians helped. In response to NASA's inquiries, Soviet space officials assured the U.S. that the recent deaths of three cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 11 were not the result of any new problems that might imperil the Apollo 15 astronauts...
Though the doctors realized that it was feasible to remove the extra pelvis and legs, they feared that the excision could imperil the child's urological functions or damage his circulation if major arteries were involved. They also worried that removal of so large a growth might leave insufficient skin flaps for suturing...
...proclamation of National Emergency, Truman stated that "recent events in Korea and elsewhere constitute a grave threat to the peace of the world and imperil the efforts of this country and those of the United Nations to prevent aggression and armed conflict...
...Kremlin chose to magnify the incident into a major diplomatic demarche. In a policy address last week, Politburo Ideologue Mikhail Suslov asserted that U.S. bases on the Soviet periphery imperil his country and prove that Washington is pursuing "a policy of criminal aggression." The Soviets dropped contradictory hints-some to the effect that they might release the Americans this week, others indicating that they might be preparing to put them on trial, just as they had U-2 Pilot Gary Powers...