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Mobil Oil, the largest U.S. firm still doing business in South Africa, had staunchly refused to join the more than 170 American companies, including Exxon and General Motors, that have closed their operations in that country because of its racial policies. But last week Mobil announced that it is also...
-- Establishing a five-year, $100 million program to zone the Amazon region for agriculture, mining and other uses. The zoning scheme would be partly financed by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.
-- Regulating the production and sale of the toxic chemicals used in mining and agriculture.
But there is another Alaska -- a land of mining towns and tourist boats, of developers and exploiters. Gradually, but inexorably, oil rigs encroached upon the wilderness, and a huge pipeline now snakes its way across the icy expanses where caribou roam. Loggers have cut ever deeper into the lush forests...
Deutsch then spoke of the way Hispanic communities changed when they could not compete economically with Anglo communities and were forced into becoming mining villages.