Word: tins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leftist university students and tin miners, long a source of violent demonstrations and strikes, have not taken to the streets in months. Political opposition has quieted down. Barrientos even strengthened his hand with the army by personally flying into the battle zone half a dozen times, sometimes only minutes after the latest action. On one visit, according to an entry in Che Guevara's diary, Barrientos' helicopter set down only 250 yards from the spot where the guerrilla leader was hidden. "The important thing was that we had the support of the people," says Barrientos, a former...
Call for Pay Cuts. With a freer political hand, Barrientos has been able to push ahead with his ambitious economic and social reforms, many of which are already bearing fruit. A vast modernization and economy drive has turned the deficit-ridden tin mines ($16.2 million in 1962) into a moneymaker and taxpayer for the first time. With the increase in tin production, export sales have risen 30% in the past three years to $150,400,000. Barrientos has also doubled petroleum production, built scores of new schools, hospitals and clinics, and added 20,000 miles of new roads...
...plus the military cost of the war, caused Bolivia to end the year with a $15 million budget deficit. To help hold down this year's deficit, Barrientos asked his Congress last month to cut his $13,000-a-year salary by 25%, and executives in the government tin company dutifully followed suit, requesting a 20% pay cut. "I hope other state agencies will do the same," Barrientos says. With the guerrilla war over, he realizes all too well that his temporary honeymoon with the tin miners and students could end any day. "We hope to better the situation...
...Chicago and Cleveland; it owns more office space (5,775,000 sq. ft.) than the total available in Denver, Atlanta or Kansas City. The buildings win few prizes for design; architects still wisecrack that Tishman's aluminum-skinned skyscraper at 666 Fifth Avenue in mid-Manhattan is "the tin can that the Seagram Building came in." The company has $857 million worth of buildings going up, under contract or planned...
...tattered, canvas tents that once billowed across the South Lebanese val ley near Saida (modern Sidon) have long since rotted away, and in their place the residents of Ein el Hilweh have built a Mediterranean Hooverville of plaster-sided shacks whose tin roofs clatter in the chill winter wind. The Arabs who occupy the camp are Palestinian refugees, who were assigned their 25 flat, barren acres by the United Nations after the Israeli army had driven them from their homes in north ern Palestine. The first of the homeless arrived there in 1947 just before Christmas. As their numbers swelled...