Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sight for the more serious problem of sulfur-oxide emissions. Another controversy is over strip mining, which accounts for a third of all U.S.-produced coal. In response to criticism of the desolate condition in which stripped areas are usually left, some large companies have begun to replace soil and vegetation after scooping up deposits just beneath the surface. Two Kentucky counties have already banned strip mining, and government leaders in other areas are re-examining their policies...
...First Secretary Gustav Husák announced that his two-year policy of normalization and consolidation had successfully annulled the "dangerous" reforms of the Alexander Dubček era. Much of the session was a Te Deum to the Soviet Union, which still maintains 80,000 troops on Czechoslovak soil three years after invading the country and crushing Dubč's Prague Spring...
These books raise significant questions: What was the relationship of Castro's non-communist July 26th Movement to the Socialist Party, PSP, and why was the Marxist orthodoxy in a back-seat position? Because Cuba's soil is so fertile, the island must have faced serious economic difficulty to make rationing a continuous part of revolutionary existence there. One must also examine present Russo-Cuban relations and its connections with the Cuban's attempt to export their revolution to Latin America...
CUBA'S economic problems developed prior to its revolution. To its advantage, Cuba has very rich soil located in a "marginal tropical climate" mitigated by sea and good rain. The country's supply of raw materials severely limited industrial possibilities, for example, energy needs. For this reason, Castro's hasty industrialization efforts with Russian aid and ideology (not mentioned by Dumont) was unsuited to Cuba's particular conditions...
...repeatedly hit by meteorites and broken up so that a layer of broken rock and dust from 6 to 20 feet deep lies on the surface. Some of these rocks have been lying on the surface directly exposed to space for several million years, while the top inch of soil has been relatively unmixed for the last several hundred million years...