Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phosphates, rubber, coffee, cocoa, pepper and bananas. Their leaders talked of "one, two, many OPECs." The grand plans generally failed because members have lacked the cohesiveness to make them work ?so far. But the new importance of raw materials moved some big producers to raise prices unilaterally. Jamaica, for example, abrogated contracts with companies and lifted the government take for the country's bauxite...
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...
Attention athletes: to help brush up on the golf game, Doug Sanders will take six days out of his time and $7,000 out of your bank account for six lessons in Jamaica and Houston. Tennis, anyone? The Wise Man is John Newcombe, the venue near San Antonio, the price $8,650 for a day. You dream of winning the Kentucky Derby? For a mere $5,750, Top Jockey Mary Bacon will help steer equestrian Mittys toward the winner's circle. Sakowitz's least expensive offering is the three-day bronc-buster or bull-rider clinic chaired...
Davis said that there was not enough evidence that the two men, Louis Mathis of Cambridge and Darl R. Dixon of Jamaica Plain, had participated in a conspiracy to transport stolen goods across state lines...
...surprise announcement that about 40 per cent of the coins had been recovered and five suspects in five different towns had been arrested came Tuesday. By Thursday a sixth suspect was nabbed in Jamaica Plain, and yesterday another 866 coins and three suspects were found in Canada. FBI agents are still searching for about 2000 coins and one suspect...