Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frustrated because his people did not want an African colony, Leopold set up a series of cultural committees as a front and acquired personal ownership of millions of square miles of Central Africa. His agents then terrorized villages for the rubber and ivory that fetched high prices in Europe...
Last week the Supreme Soviet, Moscow's rubber-stamp parliament, unanimously approved Brezhnev's choice. He is Vasili Kuznetsov, 76, a veteran diplomat whose career peaked in 1953 when he was named Deputy Foreign Minister. He simultaneously served for two years as Moscow's Ambassador to Peking. (In the early '30s Kuznetsov earned an M.S. at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and worked in the open-hearth division of the Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn, Mich.) In praising the new Vice President, Politburo Member Mikhail Suslov, 74, referred to Kuznetsov's "rich experience...
Byrd likes to emphasize that he may now be Carter's friend but he is still the Senate's man. "We are under no obligation to rubber stamp anything the President sends up here," he told his fellows last week. Indeed, he has even refused to place on the Senate calendar a number of Carter proposals-including instant voter registration and the creation of a consumer protection agency-that he senses his colleagues do not want. Byrd has cautioned Carter against pressing for early adoption of the Panama Canal treaty, and he even publicly bawled out Vice President...
...methods. Again, Mobil seems to be the chief villain. This summer it launched a new program whereby prominent cartoonists were hired to draw cartoons subtly embued with the Mobil message. An example is one by Roy Doty of a man standing in his back yard, axing to bits a rubber hose which was in the process of supplying water for his inflatable swimming pool. Another man turns to a puzzled neighbor and says, "He's explaining how breaking up the oil companies would work." Another cartoon by Robert Weper has a store clerk explaining a new game to a customer...
...role in East German industry was tough and trenchant. "The indolence of the bureaucrat corresponds to the apathy of the worker, which, in turn, is matched by the disgust of the technical experts." The author was Rudolf Bahro, 42, a mild-mannered executive of an East Berlin rubber factory, and the quote was from his new book The Alternative-banned in East Germany, but a bestseller in West Germany. In an extraordinary act of defiance and courage, Bahro had agreed to be interviewed on West German television, which is watched by an estimated 1 million East Berliners every day. Bahro...