Word: exportability
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...foreign policy toward Allende's Chile included withdrawal of all foreign aid except to the military, wholesale cuts in World Bank, Export-Import Bank, and private sector bank loans and credits to Chile, payment of millions of CIA dollars to finance anti-Allende demonstrations and mouthpieces such as El Mercurio, and direct CIA encouragement for the coup. U.S. multinational corporations such as ITT also funded anti-Allende subversion, although ITT executives have avoided jail because the U.S. government says too many "national security secrets" would come out in a trial...
...another variation on that most imitated of film classics, Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game. But A Slave of Love comes from the Soviet Union, not France, and that single fact casts the film in a startling light. It isn't often that the Soviets export movies that aim to be lyrical, sentimental and commercial. One could sooner imagine Universal Pictures releasing a musical remake of Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky-with or without Sensurround...
...South Africa, the rise in price has more than made up for the drop in output. One bank estimates that at an average price of only $190 an ounce in 1978, the nation's export earnings would climb $1 billion over last year, to $4.2 billion. The Soviet Union is the No. 2 gold miner, and last year its Wozchod Bank sold 401 tons at an average price of $150 an ounce, earning a tidy $2 billion. This year Wozchod expects to sell another 400 tons, at much higher profit...
...hurt. In turn, the nation's balance of payments would suffer. Of all commercial plane sales in non-Communist countries, Boeing rings up about 52%, McDonnell Douglas 28%, and Lockheed 3%. At about $7 billion a year, sales of aircraft, engines and parts abroad are the second largest U.S. export (after food...
Since Borman outraged U.S. planemakers by buying a European plane, Boeing has led a campaign in Washington against what Treasurer Jack Pierce calls "predatory financing." Indeed, Borman got a good deal, which includes a $250 million loan guaranteed by European government agencies. Somewhat reluctantly, the U.S. Export-Import Bank has agreed to try to meet the European terms by making more of low-interest loans available to foreign buyers of U.S. aircraft...