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Despite these problems, it is clear, as Kissinger was ready to say this week, that increased cooperation between the developed and the developing world is essential. The failure to work together is fraught with some very real dangers. For one thing, the producer states possess an enormous potential for disrupting the flow of vital materials to developed countries. Four countries (Chile, Peru, Zambia and Zaire) control fully 80% of the exportable copper in the world; two (Bolivia and Malaysia) account for 70% of the tin; another four (Jamaica, Guinea, Surinam and Guyana) are responsible for 95% of the bauxite exports...
...sleep over his decision to drop that first atomic bomb, but in the course of three decades Americans have become less certain about who their enemies are and what right the U.S. had to visit a holocaust upon the citizens of Hiroshima. At least half a dozen nations now possess the secret of nuclear destruction, and some 7,000 missiles many times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb stand ready to ravage civilization. The fact that they have not yet done so can be ascribed to many reasons, but one, surely, is that Hiroshima did happen and that it does...
Letters now come into the Executive by the millions. There are eleven Cabinet posts to Washington's four. Ford, like Nixon, has avoided Cabinet Secretaries who possess any political clout of their own that would give them substantial independence (the exception is Kissinger). Washington's chief Cabinet members were the nation's two outstanding leaders after Washington himself: Jefferson and Hamilton. As long as they stayed in office, Washington kept them under control. Under Washington, the personnel of the total Federal Government was 350. In March 1975 the number of employees in the Executive Branch alone totaled...
...Bonn-Brasilia deal. Washington argued that because a full cycle complex had never been sold to any nonnuclear nation, West Germany would be setting a dangerous precedent that could only increase the chance of nuclear proliferation. So far, only the U.S., the Soviet Union, China, France and Britain possess the costly, complicated plants to produce enriched uranium. All other nations must come to these powers for nuclear fuel for reactors. Washington pointed out that U.S. firms are strictly prohibited from selling enrichment plants abroad; Brazil, in fact, would like to have bought the full cycle from U.S. manufacturers...
...corpse that will not stay put. The body of a black man, apparently murdered, appears on Mehring's land. He has it buried. A flood brings it up again. The constant resurrection shatters the farmer. As the book ends, Mehring comes to understand that he can never possess the property that the blacks truly own and he can only occupy...