Word: westernism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year, which in Detroit's terms is penny ante. But sales abroad of cars made in the U.S. are rapidly increasing. General Motors last year exported 125,000 cars, up from 98,000 in 1977, and both Ford and Chrysler are doing well. The strongest demand is from Western Europe, especially Switzerland, Belgium and the country where people have prided themselves on making some of the world's best cars, West Germany...
...cartel's profit motive was much in evidence at an Arab energy conference in Abu Dhabi last week. Delegates bitterly attacked Western oil companies for trading oil back and forth among themselves at extortionate prices on the small but highly volatile spot market. Mani Said Utaiba, Oil Minister of the United Arab Emirates and president of the cartel, suggested that at its next meeting on March 26 in Geneva, OPEC should take up the idea of blacklisting offending companies and refusing to sell oil to them...
...this quarter are expected to rise anywhere from 20% to 40% above last year's. Among the reasons: inventories acquired at last year's prices are becoming more valuable as OPEC pushes up the worldwide cost of crude. The largest gains will come from operations in Western Europe, where retail prices are largely uncontrolled...
...Bass's Underground Evangelism and Michael Wurmbrand's Jesus to the Communist World. At any one time, dozens of smugglers, both professionals and one-shot amateurs, may be crossing borders in Bible-bearing cars, vans or trains. The Bibles are given out free, paid for by Western contributors...
...Soviet Union, the toughest target, 22 Bible-bearing vehicles were confiscated in 1977 alone. Border guards now come armed with probing tools and auto owners' manuals. Some border checkpoints are even equipped with terminals to Western-made computer systems to check the record of any driver they stop. Czechoslovak guards in 1977 barred the entry of an American woman when the computer informed them that she had been thrown out of the Soviet Union two years before for Bible smuggling. Most people caught in the act are simply questioned for a few hours and then refused entry. The longest...