Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Britain's trade-union bosses saw nothing but mischief in the Back Britain movement. "A pure gimmick," said Jim Conway, 53, general secretary of the 1,300,000-member Amalgamated Engineering Union to which most of the employees at the girls' company belong. "The problem in British industry," he added, "is outdated, outmoded factories, and outmoded and ill-equipped management." Nonetheless, the workers at the girls' firm defied a union order to stop the free work and even threatened to bolt the union...
...earners from what was fondly called "no-work pay" in the old days, and shipped tons of coins bearing Nkrumah's likeness to be melted down in the British Mint. By devaluing Ghana's currency 30%, Ankrah has shrunk imports and wiped out a foreign trade deficit that totaled $840 million when he took over. He has given such U.S. companies as Firestone Tire & Rubber and Union Carbide contracts to revitalize Nkrumah's mismanaged state corporations...
...living under guard in Bolivian officers' quarters, getting the same food and accommodations and busily reading and writing, apparently on philosophical themes. Debray continues to be an un usual prisoner in other ways. Last week Bolivia's President René Barrientos Ortuño offered to trade him for an anti-Castro hero now imprisoned in Cuba, and Debray himself let it be known that he had been saved from execution by none other than the U.S.'s Central Intelligence Agency...
Dilemma for Castro. President Barrientos told newsmen in Zurich, where he was having a medical checkup, that he would trade Debray for Huber Matos, 48, a onetime Castro aide who was convicted of "high treason" in 1959 and sentenced to 20 years in prison. "I admire Matos profoundly," Barrientos said. "He has the same ideas I have. He fought for social reforms, but he refused to be an agent for Moscow...
...nonessential travel outside the Western Hemisphere," but also promised to ask Congress to put teeth in the ban. Most likely: a head tax of $100 or more per person per trip. If Congress enacts effective curbs, the $14 billion world tourist industry, among the largest ingredients of world trade, will suffer quite a jolt. Some 3,000,000 U.S. tourists spend 20% of the annual total, including $800 million in Europe...