Word: minis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though its mines provided the uranium for the Nagasaki and Hiroshima A-bombs, the durable giant known as the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga had never been so preoccupied with explosives as it was last week. Outside the southern Katanga town of Kolwezi, unruly "gendarmes" in the service of Katanga's President Moise Tshombe had wired demolition charges to two huge Union Minière power dams and threatened to push the plunger...
Tshombe's "scorched earth" threats proved more bluff than anything else. Before they fled, his Katangese troops sabotaged the control board at Union Miniére's Jadotville plant. The company's production was at a total halt. But damage was relatively mild, and the U.N. now had sentries protecting two-thirds of its installations...
Last week Irish infantrymen marched into Kipushi, site of copper mines at the Rhodesian border. Ethiopian U.N. troops already occupied Elisabethville itself. But the big prize was Jadotville, a town of 90,000, where the giant Union Mini&3233;re mineral outfit produces one-third of its copper (110,000 tons) and three-fourths of its cobalt (6,600 tons) each year. Toward Jadotville, 70 miles from Elisabethville, moved a two-mile-long column of Indians commanded by Brigadier Reginald Noronha. a gutty soldier who munched hardboiled eggs while mortar shells burst around...
Visitors to the Paris show seemed to like what they saw. Chic Parisian housewives wiggled into the Renault's R-8 (the trade-up from the Dauphine) and squealed with delight at built-in vanity mirrors and soft new spongy seats. Men rocked the Morris 1100-an upgraded Mini Minor-to test its revolutionary liquid suspension system. Other members of the new line...
...determined to prove that the money behind Tshombe's "kingdom" was not the only support provided by Union Minière. A U.N. report accused "hard core" whites of firing on the U.N. forces with mortars and machine guns from several places within Union Minière's big administrative compound during the recent Elisabethville fighting...