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...Cheese. The Russian offer was little more than a tempting bit of cheese on the treadle of a Communist trap. A smelter would give employment to only 100 workers. It would force Bolivia to import large quantities of costly British coke to refine its relatively low-grade (30%) ore. It would put Bolivia in competition with the international tin cartel, thousands of expensive miles from potential markets. Bolivia would have to accept platoons of Soviet "technicians" and go through with the first Russo-Bolivian exchange of diplomats in history...
...than canceled the tax rebates. Above all, New Zealand's voters were irritated by the feeling of pervasive government supervision of their tight little, right little island nation. A frequent gripe is that in the midst of prosperity, no one can buy an automobile except after paying exorbitant import duties and taxes (137% on U.S. cars), and even then the red tape makes delivery a matter of months...
Describing the particularly difficult problems of gearing a primitive African society to the modern world, Larry , a Nigerian delegate to the Nations, spoke of the economic development of Nigeria as "the marriage the existing Nigerian economy to industry." Nigerians must import such modities as Ovaltine, he said, despite fact that they are the world's second producers of cocoa, all because cannot process their existing raw materials...
...Ashby Commission proposed a plan which it called "LEAP"--Loan-Educational Aid Program. Under the plan, the Nigerian government would send natives to colleges in the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth countries, and the United States, and at the same time would import British and American teachers to supply existing needs...
...Uganda, where women in the West Nile district traditionally wear only Eve's fig leaf fore and aft, there is now a brisk import trade in bras and pants, but dresses are still considered slightly immoral. Often U.S. clothes must be altered abroad because they are too big; in pigmy Africa men frequently wear women's coats. There is a fast Uganda trade in tuxedos for weddings and funerals, which are bought used for $1.50 to $3, worn once and then resold...