Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambodian rebels rounded up by Hanoi last month. Few observers were misled by this disguise, however, KNUFNS is little more than an organizational fig leaf designed to conceal an attempt to unseat the virulently anti-Vietnamese Cambodian government. Among KNUFNS' promises: to re-establish banks and private ownership, restore family life and abolish "compulsory marriage." Still, broadcasting such attractive ideas may have little influence on Cambodia's heavily supervised and rusticated population: there are said to be almost no private radios in all the country...
These happy few share in an unusual private fiefdom called R-Ranch (Get it?-"Our Ranch"), one of three such pioneering parks in the state. The idea is simple: an outdoorsman buys an R-Ranch ownership share that grants him not a piece of the land but a piece of the action: recreational free rein over the whole park area. This makes R-Ranch an almost ideal solution to the problem of wilderness use. The land is kept from subdividers; it is also saved from typical state park despoilment. After all, R-Ranchers are hardly apt to litter their...
...Iowa has been monitoring ownership of its 33 million acres of farm land for three years and has discovered that there are all of 27 nonresident alien owners, most of them West Germans; together, they have less than 9,000 acres...
Georgia Democrat Herman Talmadge, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, has asked the Agriculture Department and the state extension services to make a study of alien buying of U.S. farm land. Last fall Congress passed a law that will force all foreigners to register their land ownership. At least 25 states have enacted constraints of some kind on foreign land holdings...
...multinationals to set up outposts in developing lands that would be 51% or more owned by local people or governments. Giving them a majority stake would diminish the danger of expropriation. Sperry has set up such joint ventures in many countries, and it has learned that to demand majority ownership is, in Lyet's words, "a very outdated, obtuse approach." If a company supplies the technology and the marketing expertness, it has effective control even if it does not own most of the stock...