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Green Cards. Wetbacks from Mexico have been entering the U.S. in a rising flood. Last month border patrolmen of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service seized more than 14,000-1,000 more than the monthly average. Thousands more filter past roadblocks and airplane spotters or wade the shallow Rio Grande in search of jobs as "stoop" laborers on farms. Most wetback workers make it across the border on their own. Illegal labor contractors smuggle others across...
...debt-ridden limbo of menial jobs and ghetto housing. This contemporary demographic disaster is the subject of Voyage of Silence, a somber documentation of a Portuguese peasant's emigration to France. Produced by Philippe de Broca-a new wave filmmaker best known for frothy fantasy (That Man from Rio, The Five-Day Lover)-the movie is a small masterpiece of compassionate observation and emotional restraint...
Soon this is going to change. After years of dawdling, the Labor government finally announced its plan to help set up a domestic aluminum industry. British Aluminium Co. .(partly owned by Reynolds Metals of the U.S.) and the British mining concern, Rio Tinto-Zinc Corp., received the go-ahead to build two smelting plants. They are expected to produce an annual 224,000 tons of ingots by 1971 and save $100 million a year on imports...
...Rio Tinto will build its 112,000-ton smelter on the Welsh island of Anglesey at Holyhead. As the "buying-in" price for a cheap power deal, it will in vest $79 million in the new Dungeness nuclear-power station in Kent. British Aluminium got the coveted site at Invergordon in the Highlands, the last undeveloped deep-water port in the United Kingdom. Its 112,000-ton smelter there will be fueled at the cheap rate in return for a $70 million investment...
...years from now the new plants, plus the increased smelting capacity of Alcan Aluminium Ltd., should be able to put 348,000 short tons of ingots on the market annually, but some analysts are predicting an aluminum glut before then. Sir Val Duncan, chairman of Rio Tinto, disagrees. "If you look at it globally, that must be nonsense," he says...