Word: exploitationism
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Gulf Oil, which spent $2,000,000 drilling for oil in Italy and discovered one potentially large field in Abruzzi on the Adriatic, last week struck its rig, announced that it was "renouncing the oil search and oilfields exploitation on the Italian continent." With that, the last U.S. company in...
The satellites could blame their sorry economic plight directly on Russia, which conducts 1/5 of its foreign trade with Iron Curtain countries-mostly to its own advantage. Reversing the usual form of colonial exploitation, in which colonies are used as sources of raw materials, Russia feeds the satellites raw materials...
By coincidence, it was the week of the 39th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution-time for Communists everywhere to celebrate, as the New York Daily Worker put it, the day when "a new era of human society was inaugurated, one that will eventually eliminate all exploitation, war, oppression." In Soviet...
The Warnings. The Soviet leaders had known for months that they were in trouble in the satellites. Stalin's ruthless economic exploitation strained the satellite regimes beyond endurance, and generated layers of explosive discontent beneath the placid surfaces, particularly in Poland and Hungary. The strain could not be kept...
Why a New Faith? "Islam was generated as a new faith," says Cragg, "because of the conviction that a new one there must be. But why?" A bitter, running dispute between Christian factions in Arabia scandalized the non-Christian population, and Christian ideas had made no lasting impression on the...