Word: ores
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...without going through Greece. In turn, Greece is a frequent target of Bulgarian propaganda, but Sofia earlier this year signed a pact for joint economic and scientific cooperation with Athens. Sofia is also negotiating with Athens for rights to use the Greek port of Salonica for unloading Algerian iron ore bound for Bulgarian plants located just across the border...
Further, the bill never dictated a strict 1 to 1 ratio. Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.), author of the bill, has opposed admissions quotas of any kind and required in her legislation only a non-discriminatory admissions policy. Harvard would not have been penalized if it had honest difficulty enlarging its pool of qualified women applicants and fell short of a full 1 to 1 balance...
Bringing these riches to the outside world is another matter, and in most cases the payoff is years away. Freeport Indonesia Inc., a subsidiary of U.S.-owned Freeport Minerals Co., must finish a 70-mile highway over rugged mountains and through jungle-choked valleys before it can begin exporting ore from its Ertsberg mining site in 1973. P.T. International Nickel Indonesia, a subsidiary of International Nickel Co., of Canada, last June reported finding "significant" nickel deposits on the island of Sulawesi but does not expect to begin production before 1975. By then it will have constructed a $200 million mine...
...country itself, which ranks fifth in the world in population. There are 300 million acres of teak, sandalwood, ebony and other valuable timber, at least one-fortieth of the world's oil reserves under the soil and probably far more offshore, and unmeasured quantities of copper and nickel ore. Experts estimate that Ertsberg Mountain in West Irian, which is the Indonesian half of New Guinea, contains 33 million tons of copper, gold, silver and iron ore all by itself...
...Farmer Boeing," as project officials sometimes call the company, plans to follow the potatoes with industrial development. Eventually, plans call for creation of a 10,000-resident city on the site of Boardman, Ore. (current pop. 337). In addition to these projects, Boeing has gone into a variety of other fields. The Los Angeles police department recently bought several units of a Boeing radio scrambler that prevents public monitoring of police calls. The company is also overseeing construction in the Seattle area of housing projects that demonstrate new modular and prefabricated building techniques. In partnership with El Paso Natural...