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...regime as they do now that "Yugoslavia's ideological and political course has changed." Tito, who will be 83 in May, has grown increasingly worried about his nation's ability to remain united and independent after his death. Thus he has recently ordered an ideological campaign to suppress political unorthodoxy and augment the power of the central party leadership. According to Djilas, Mihajlov "did not fall in line with the new course...
...quasi-autonomous international cartel that often gives it own interests priority over those of its mother country. Abuse of the economic and political power by the oil companies was not the sole cause of the recent quadrupling of world oil prices, but the industry has moved to suppress the entry market. The discouragement of synthetic fuel research has been industry policy since the 1920s, and has caused a tremendous waste of American natural resources and an accretion of wealth and political power to our foreign oil suppliers...
...Federal Energy Office has backed these contentions, but Dr. Geoffrey Frantachy, who is participating in California methynol feasibility studies, observed that. "The oil company's market would be cut by 15 to 30 per cent; they control much of the energy industry, but not methynol, and they'll suppress it whenever they can regardless of the national interest...
...most important book about British politics to have been written in years," but civil servants in the office that serves the Cabinet found Cross-man's wealth of detail on how British government works to be profoundly disturbing. With Wilson's approval, they moved in effect to suppress the 350,000-word document by asserting their traditional right to a line-by-line scrutiny of Cabinet members' memoirs for breach of confidence. They found plenty, and it appeared that Grossman's candid insights might never see print...
...Julio Mesquita, grandfather of the present director, Julio de Mesquita Neto, was the son of landowners who gave up law for journalism. During the 1870s the paper crusaded successfully to abolish slavery. After the monarchy was overthrown, Mesquita supported the creation of a republic. Later, many regimes tried to suppress O Estado, and Mesquita was once imprisoned briefly...