Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communism. In pursuit of the tourist's hard currency (9,000,000 foreigners spent $105 million in Yugoslavia last year), the government has abolished visa requirements for 18 nations ranging from Mongolia to such NATO members as Italy, Denmark and Norway. Old hotels are being refurbished to suit Western tastes, and new ones built. Eight new state catering schools offer a four-year course for waiters, cooks and hostelers. Families are being encouraged by the Communist government to indulge in such capitalist practices as investing in restaurants, inns, shoe-repair shops and motels...
...true facts of the "plot" may never be known. It seems clear that some form of action against the government was in train. Word spread through Leopoldville that at least four Western embassies had been approached for support...
...Barrow Island, a cyclone-swept wasteland off Western Australia that until now has supported only kangaroos, lizards and one lonely tree, an international team of roustabouts is drilling with intensity and anticipation. The Western Australian government last month declared Barrow to be an economically viable oilfield, expects that by 1968 it will be producing 20,000 bbl. daily for a group made up of Shell, Texaco, Standard Oil of California and Ampol, an Australian firm...
Foreign companies are urgently interested and are investing at record rates. One magnet for capital is Western Australia, which has 15 billion tons of high-grade iron ore, about one-eighth of the world's known reserves. Great consortiums of companies, including the U.S.'s Kaiser Steel and American Metal Climax, have contracted to sell $3.5 billion worth of iron ore and pellets to Japanese steelmakers over the next 25 years. In the north, bauxite reserves amount to 3.5 billion tons, about half of global reserves, or enough to fill all the Western world's needs...
Kulturrní Tvorba made its observations after a glimpse at Incomex '66 (for International Computer Exhibition '66), a month-long display of the wares of 15 Western computer makers in Prague's Park of Culture. To study the largest array of computers ever assembled in the East, politicians and problem solvers flocked from all over the bloc...