Word: cobalt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...locomotives and cars were out of action; then, with a roar, the town's main fuel tanks, filled with thousands of gallons of diesel oil, went up in a leaping column of flame and smoke. Near by was the village of Luilu, site of a big copper and cobalt refinery of Katanga's Union Minière du Haut-Katanga; there, a few rounds of cannon and rocket fire knocked out the powerhouse transformers and punched holes in some building walls. Next day, U.N. Ethiopian flyers zoomed out to strike at other targets-first Katanga...
...reported TIME Correspondent Eric Robins last week from Elisabethville, the dry and dusty capital city of the province that wants to be a nation-the Congo's Katanga. Only a few miles away are the mine shafts and chimneys of the huge copper and cobalt complex that makes secessionist Katanga the envy of its neighbors. For months the United Nations had kept its uneasy peace in Katanga, always hopeful that somehow the territory could be brought back into the Congo fold. Now, for the second time in three months, the U.N. was trying, with no great success...
...mile border with Britain's tense Northern Rhodesia protectorate. Moreover, some Britons and Frenchmen also have heavy financial interests in Katanga itself,* mostly through part ownership of the rich Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, one of the world's biggest copper and cobalt producers, which (according to a report by U.N. Acting Secretary-General U Thant) has been supplying arms to Katanga...
...some harsh public criticism, it has also paid hard dividends. La Générale's hulking Katanga satellite-Union Miniėre du Haut-Katanga-continues to produce 8% to 10% of the free world's copper, some 25% of its germanium, 65% of its cobalt. Throughout the Congo, La Générale's subsidiaries still act as the prime exporters and importers, miners and managers, and are a mighty force in autos, oil, cotton, sugar, rubber, real estate, banking and insurance. La Générale's Congo investments produced...
...Probably the most effective bomb in spreading worldwide death would be salted with cobalt, which absorbs neutrons and turns into radioactive cobalt 60. Since cobalt 60's half life is five years, it would be carried all over the earth before losing its activity. About 50,000 megatons of cobalt-salted bombs would theoretically provide enough long-lasting radioactivity to kill everyone on earth...