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After four days of debate that often lasted until dawn, the parliament of the world's newest, and 156th, sovereign state unanimously approved a constitution. The staid, protocol-conscious assembly in Surinam's capital of Paramaribo erupted in cheers. Outside, a crowd waiting for the vote roared its approval and set off celebratory firecrackers. As the parliamentarians stood to sing the national anthem, a Creole woman placed garlands of ribbons around the neck of Prime Minister Henck Arron and Opposition Leader Jaggernath Lachmon, head of the Hindustani Vatan Hitkarie (Progressive Reform) party. Close to tears, the two longtime...
There is serious question, though, as to how long the euphoria will last. Surinam, which formally becomes independent at midnight this Tuesday, is a polyglot* New England-size former Dutch colony on South America's humid equatorial coast, with some exotic and bitter divisions. The new nation's largest single racial group−129,500 East Indians known locally as Hindustanis−almost universally opposed independence. They feared political and economic repression by the 108,500 Creoles (blacks and mulattoes), most of whom belong to leftist-influenced parties supporting Prime Minister Arron. Joining forces with Surinam...
...thing, the producer states possess an enormous potential for disrupting the flow of vital materials to developed countries. Four countries (Chile, Peru, Zambia and Zaire) control fully 80% of the exportable copper in the world; two (Bolivia and Malaysia) account for 70% of the tin; another four (Jamaica, Guinea, Surinam and Guyana) are responsible for 95% of the bauxite exports. Organized in cartels, these producer states could boycott industrialized countries or engage in disastrous price gouging...
Producers of other materials, too, are now banding together to try to lift prices. Countries that possess iron ore (including Venezuela and Brazil) and seven bauxite producers (Guinea, Guyana, Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Surinam, Australia and Yugoslavia) are talking about forming cartels. Coffee-producing nations hope to control prices by reducing exports from the Central American republics. Oil-rich Venezuela promises to make up their short-term losses in revenues with subsidies from a special investment fund...
...Mercedes live in a proctor's apartment in Grays Hall. On the nights that he has a chance to relax, he sometimes begins unwinding with an after-dinner pool game at the Union. Once back at his apartment he might mull over some material that he has collected on Surinam during a summer excursion with his close friend Alan Counter, assistant professor of Biology. Evans and Counter will soon be making an appearance on national television to discuss their trip. Maybe it is because he is a southerner, maybe it is because Evans has lived such a long life...