Word: minis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then came the question of who owned the ex-colonial government's bulging stock portfolio. In return for mining, forestry and transport concessions, Congo-based private companies had paid the colony in stock. As a result, the colonial government controlled nearly 20% of Katanga's wealthy Union Minière, had control of diamond mines in Kasai province and hundreds of smaller concerns. At independence, the portfolio was worth more than $700 million; it has since skidded to less than half that value. More than any other economic factor, the desire to keep control of Union Mini...
...discussion of illegitimate births. "You are asking for it-and too many of you are getting it." Columnist Marjorie Proops advised brides-to-be: "The quick tumblings in a not-very-private corner at a crowded party, or the rapid assaults upon each other in the back of a Mini-Minor, do not add up to the kind of sex you will share after the wedding...
...Puddy," as her daughter is still known to intimates, was the first royal princess to attend boarding school, later took up nursing at a children's hospital. The slim, green-eyed Maid of Kent tickled Londoners by wearing her mother's hand-me-downs and driving a Mini-Minor-and worried them by her avoidance of romantic entanglements. "I could only get married," she once said, "to a man who is tall, rich, and madly in love with...
...owns fields in the U.S., Canada and Angola and is prospecting in six other nations, including its native Belgium (where it numbers among its 85% Belgian stockholders the ubiquitous Société Générale de Belgique, chief owner of the Congo's Union Minière). It has also moved into petrochemicals, along with Union Carbide has opened a massive polyethylene plant at Antwerp to supply the Common Market...
...Southern Rhodesia, and André Van Roey, director of Katanga's National Bank, followed him there. For 36 desperate hours, the two urged him to yield rather than carry out his threat to blow up the huge dams and copper and cobalt mines operated by the giant Union Minière company in Kolwezi. Finally, convinced that he had no alternative, Tshombe gave...