Word: jamaica
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...million in potential export earnings; Zambia loses even more. The producer nations are now planning cartels, modeled after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, to set and enforce minimum prices. Chile, Peru, Zaire and Zambia have tried to organize a copper cartel, and seven nations, including Australia, Guinea, Jamaica and Yugoslavia, recently formed the International Bauxite Association to prop up prices for that ore, which is used to make aluminum. Most commodity producers, however, lack the religious, ethnic and cultural unity of the Arab oil producers, and it remains to be seen whether their efforts can counteract...
...nations of the Western Hemisphere that have boycotted Fidel Castro's Cuba for the past decade have been having second thoughts. In the past two years, official ties have been forged between Cuba and Peru, Argentina, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados and Trinidad-Tobago.* Last week Panama was added to the list when 30 jubilant Panamanian officials flew to Havana to sign a declaration restoring diplomatic, economic and cultural links between the two nations. Next in line are Ecuador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia-and probably...
...another. Even the single cells that have combined to form a human being house microscopic non-human tenants whose value to the health of the cell appears unquestioned. "My cells are no longer the pure line entities I was raised with," Thomas explains. "They are ecosystems more complex than Jamaica...
...Jamaica needs money. The nation of 2 million people is suffering vicious inflation, now racing along at an annual rate of 25% to 30%, and more than one-fourth of its work force is unemployed. Revenues from bauxite exports have not risen as quickly as the prices of imports-including oil, for which Jamaica will pay $150 million this year, v. only $50 million...
Manley finally rammed through the Jamaican Parliament a set of new taxes and royalties calculated to raise Jamaica's revenues from bauxite to $200 million this year, eight times as much as in 1973. Though the companies are paying, they protest: Alcoa, Kaiser Aluminum and Reynolds Metals have announced their intention to take their case to the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes, a branch of the World Bank, for observation on the ground that the new taxes violate a lawful contract...