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Exports: Coffee, cotton, copper. Per capita income: $68. U.S. aid (1961): $200,000. Rich land has no white-settler problem, with independence in October, will have moderate, pro-Western government. Major problem: lack of cohesive, national outlook...
...have to have damn good reason for reversing him." At finance committee meetings, there is no small talk-just "important gossip about such things as the economic atmosphere." Periodically, to support a thesis or answer a question, Donner whips out of his inside jacket pocket a handy little argument settler. Most auto executives have modest ones, but Donner's comes in a specially made 2-in.-thick leather case. It is jammed with scores of photostatted cards, about the size of a playing card. containing in miniature all the latest vital statistics on G.M. and the auto industry...
Haunted Hunters. The paradox of Sukarno's economic plight is that it will be immeasurably worsened if ever he gets New Guinea. Between its jagged mountains, jungles and vast, malarial swamplands, Netherlands New Guinea is one of the most meagerly endowed countries on earth. Says one longtime settler: "If the Dutch ever pull out of here, the country will be taken over by the jungle again." Thousands of settlers have already pulled out; yields from the Dutch oilfield at Sorong have dwindled steadily, and the colony last year cost the Dutch $26 million...
...were constantly at Tshombe's elbow, passing him notes, whispering suggestions. Some were from Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, the huge, Belgian-controlled corporation that mines and processes Katanga's rich veins of copper and cobalt; other advisers were from Katanga's powerful white settler group; they, like Tshombe. had a large stake in an independent, or at least partially autonomous, Katanga...
...beaten down, but the political tension on which it was built never subsided. The wave of African nationalism would not recede, and the unrelenting pressure for freedom by the colony's 5,500,000 blacks began to tell. Kenya's economy faltered: $2,800,000 in white-settler capital left Kenya weekly, and 800 of the colony's 3,600 white-settler farms went up for sale. In 1960 Sir Patrick Renison still denounced Kenyatta as "a leader to darkness and death...