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...smothers native enterprise, the company has begun to cut back on its retail operations and expand its role as a wholesale supplier to African retailers. Getting in on the drive toward local industrialization, United Africa has invested, almost always as a minority stockholder, in African plants producing everything from cement to cosmetics. In Ghana, when the government decided to take over the buying and selling of palm products, United Africa willingly gave up the business-and became the government's agent...
Above all, he should not feel called upon to sacrifice all his most deeply imbedded cultural tastes and traits in the name of intercultural good will. After all, nobody has suggested that the Peace Corps member, in an effort to cement intercultural relations, should enter into negotiations for the sale of his sister. No one could expect him to violate in this way his deepest values and beliefs. For the same reason, nobody should suggest that he be required beyond the limits of necessity to give up the habits and tastes of a lifetime of eating, drinking, working and playing...
Thin Luck. One converted World War II bomber was busy hauling supplies- cement, rice and nails-for a village self-help program that the U.S. hoped would win some friends. Old C-475 ferried arms, food, cigarettes and beer that floated down by orange and white parachutes wherever a royal army contingent could be spotted through the clouds. Luck ran out for one U.S. embassy C-47 on an observation mission, which ran into a hail of ground fire and crashed. The U.S. gave seven crew members up for dead, the first U.S. casualties of the Laotian war. The only...
...peanut crop at above-market prices, Britain furnished four DC-3s to get Air Mali into business, West Germany's Krupp advanced $6,000,000 in credits to permit the Mali government to buy 300 trucks, and the U.S. anted up $2,500,000, mostly in cement and gasoline. Entering enthusiastically into the competition, the Common Market nations jointly granted $2,700,000 for irrigation and medical supplies, and Red China signed a barter deal: Chinese machinery and building supplies for Mali's agricultural products and handicrafts...
...COMPLAINTS may set off another investigation into price fixing. TVA is receiving equal bids on equipment, even from electric companies convicted of price rigging as the result of early TVA complaints. Equal bids are also coming in on cement and other items; e.g., five companies each bid $48,967.94 on a cable contract...