Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take care of without being distracted by a mass vengeance by a country that did not even exist when the crimes against its people took place. It's not that I like Eich, but, in the words of someone much wiser than any of us, "Vengeance is mine saith the Lord...
Other notable current movies: Ballad of a Soldier, Make Mine Mink, The League of Gentlemen, Question...
...Communist guerrillas in South Viet Nam, called Viet Cong, burn villages, capture rice barges, mine roads, extort money and food from peasants. Last year, in thousands of little quick strikes, they blew up 284 bridges, killed 4,000 officials, village elders, soldiers and farmers. Last week, with South Viet Nam headed for the polls in a presidential election, fighting broke out all over. Just north of Saigon, an army patrol blundered into a Viet Cong ambush, lost 13 dead and eleven wounded. Forty miles south of Saigon. the army surprised seven companies of Viet Cong, killed 54 and captured...
Subsidizing Deficits. Estimates are that since the Spanish conquest, some $200 billion worth of tin, silver and nitrates has been extracted from Bolivia, largely by absentee mine owners who took their wealth elsewhere. Bolivia's peasant revolution of 1952 led to the nationalization of the richest tin mines. But inefficient operation brought financial ruin. Mine machinery fell into disrepair. The demagogic leader of the tin miners' union, Juan Lechin, forced thousands of featherbedding new workers onto the government mine payrolls. Before nationalization, the mines produced 30,000 tons of tin each year; today they produce only...
Other notable current movies: Ballad of a Soldier, Make Mine Mink, Circle of Deception...