Word: minis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then, with a roar, the town's main fuel tanks, filled with thousands of gallons of diesel oil, went up in a leaping column of flame and smoke. Near by was the village of Luilu, site of a big copper and cobalt refinery of Katanga's Union Minière du Haut-Katanga; there, a few rounds of cannon and rocket fire knocked out the powerhouse transformers and punched holes in some building walls. Next day, U.N. Ethiopian flyers zoomed out to strike at other targets-first Katanga's old uranium mine at Shinkolobwe, which produced...
...down at the famous 1960 Round Table Conference in Brussels to discuss a future independent Congo. It was there that his colleagues first began to notice the array of white advisers who were constantly at Tshombe's elbow, passing him notes, whispering suggestions. Some were from Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, the huge, Belgian-controlled corporation that mines and processes Katanga's rich veins of copper and cobalt; other advisers were from Katanga's powerful white settler group; they, like Tshombe. had a large stake in an independent, or at least partially autonomous, Katanga...
...flash point at the best of times. London was especially worried, since Katanga shares a 1,100-mile border with Britain's tense Northern Rhodesia protectorate. Moreover, some Britons and Frenchmen also have heavy financial interests in Katanga itself,* mostly through part ownership of the rich Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, one of the world's biggest copper and cobalt producers, which (according to a report by U.N. Acting Secretary-General U Thant) has been supplying arms to Katanga...
While this has earned La Générale some harsh public criticism, it has also paid hard dividends. La Générale's hulking Katanga satellite-Union Miniėre du Haut-Katanga-continues to produce 8% to 10% of the free world's copper, some 25% of its germanium, 65% of its cobalt. Throughout the Congo, La Générale's subsidiaries still act as the prime exporters and importers, miners and managers, and are a mighty force in autos, oil, cotton, sugar, rubber, real estate, banking and insurance...
...that do not directly challenge Detroit. British Motor Corp., noting that 75% of its U.S. sales are sports cars, is coming out with two revised versions of its low-cost Austin-Healey Sprite ($1,868). It has also converted its tiny Austin 850 into the 90-m.p.h. Austin-Cooper mini-sports sedan boasting twin carburetors, disc brakes, and sure-footed front-wheel drive. Rootes is pushing its prestigious, $4,295 Humber (30% of its buyers are doctors, who like its luxurious interior and unpretentious exterior...