Word: rieure
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...were being put to death by the Vietnamese Emperor for teaching Christianity. Soon the French objective was to colonize rather than Christianize, and by 1883 Paris had established a "protectorate" in Cambodia and occupied all of Viet Nam; in 1899, it placed a résident supérieur in Vientiane. Economically, the French were unabashed parasites. As one report of the time put it: "Colonial production must be limited to supplying the mother country with raw materials...
...police motorcycles of the kind Touré saw and admired in Los Angeles during his U.S. tour last year. For private Western businessmen, the outlook is dark indeed. Government cooperatives are taking over foreign trade, and Touré's Comptoir Guinéen du Commerce Extérieur, the state-owned trading agency, is so deep in debt that prohibitive taxes are being levied on oil companies to rake up new funds. In fact, Toure's treasury is so strapped for cash that it has not even been able to keep its commitments to its Communist barter partners...
...French car builders keep horsepower low because income-tax inspectors use it to estimate a citizen's wealth, call it a "signe extérieur de richesse...
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