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...Grants of $28 million were extended to Cambodia in 1956 and 1958 to build a small iron-and-steel works and textile, plywood, cement and paper mills; only the textile mill and a radio station have been built...
...John, now you're the President. Big John, you're tougher than cement. We need you, you're the leader of the U.S.A...
...taro lagged for lack of funds, Jenkins lent the contractors $25.6 million to finish the job, while at the same time offering the government $80 million to help finance a new superhighway from Puebla to Mexico City. Among his reported holdings today: the Bank of Commerce, textile mills, cement plants, an automobile assembly plant, finance companies and a soap factory...
...most important Afro-Asian deviation from the Communist line revolves around the Marxist theory of the victory of the proletariat, according to Schwartz. Despite a gradual shift in emphasis to Russian and Chinese national interests, the identification of the Communist Party with the international working class is still "the cement which holds world Communism together." The "implicit ideologies" of the emergent nations, on the other hand, claim to speak for the entire people of their countries, and hence are quite nationalistic, Schwartz maintained...
...avoid wasting time in the horrendous Lagos traffic-where auto trips are measured in the number of cigarettes consumed rather than in minutes-Sir Abubakar lives in a modern, two-story cement house near his office with his wife and nine children-plus the swarming families of his chauffeur and police orderly. In the Moslem tradition, his wife does not appear in public; for formal dinner parties, Abubakar borrows the Irish wife of a fellow minister to act as hostess. Up for prayers at 6:30, Abubakar breakfasts in time to arrive at his office precisely at 8:15, heads...