Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempts to starve out its enemies have hardly been more successful. Washington tried to topple Dictator Rafael Trujillo by refusing to buy Dominican sugar and cutting off his supply of oil and auto parts. But it was an assassin's bullet, not dollar pressure, that brought him down. Cuba's Fidel Castro, with massive support from Russia, has managed to survive six years of U.S. embargo. U.S. pressure to cut off all trade with Red China was another notable flop: Canada alone in the past six years has sold Peking a whopping $926 million worth of wheat...
...deplored as an international renegade ever since it broke away from British rule 13 months ago. By a vote of 11 to 0-with four abstentions-the council declared an international embargo on 90% of Rhodesia's exports, forbade the U.N.'s 122-member nations to sell oil, arms, motor vehicles or airplanes to the rebel territory or to provide it with any form of "financial or other economic...
...this puts the major oil companies in a better bargaining position than ever before. With new, often cheaper sources available elsewhere, they are not as dependent as the sheiks are on Persian Gulf oil. Syria, among others, does not yet seem to have got the word...
Married. Eugene Paul Getty, 34, third son of Oil Magnate Jean Paul Getty, who works for his father in Rome; and Talitha Pol, 26, Dutch-born beauty and aspiring actress, stepgranddaughter of British Painter Augustus John; he for the second time; in Rome...
Next day the university regents, summoned to a meeting near Oakland airport, heard Heyns cite the faculty vote as an indication of growing "solidarity on the campus." Regent Edwin W. Pauley, a Los Angeles oil millionaire, demanded the firing of all faculty members who took part in the strike-chiefly teaching assistants. But he drew only three votes. The regents instead ruled that teachers would be fired in future if they failed to "meet their assigned duties." They also voted to "regret the necessity" for the use of police but to "reject the view that a campus should...