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Czar Alexander I, spreading his claims down the western coast of North America from the Bering Strait to Vancouver Is land, forbade all foreign ships to approach within "100 Italian miles" of shore on pain of confiscation. The U.S. put the world on notice that "the American continents are henceforth not to be considered as subject for further colonization." Further concerned that the "Holy Alliance" of Russia, Prussia and Austria might launch a war to restore newly liberated Latin American nations to the Spanish throne, Madison and Adams warned that the U.S. would view interference as the manifestation...
...Times are changing in Latin America," he said, "and we must change with the times." Henceforth, United Fruit will be "firmly committed to the policy of selling, leasing or contracting to nationals as much of our banana-producing land as can be reasonably accomplished...
...word 'junket' will henceforth be taboo in the deliberations of the Foreign Press Association of New York. On motion of Britishers on the executive board, it has been decided to substitute the term 'facility trips...
...ones. ¶ New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, having ordered more than 35 special "task forces" to study state problems and prepare legislative proposals, backed down in the face of lawmakers' complaints that he was grabbing all the credit. Soothingly, Rocky announced that his task forces would henceforth be called "legislative cooperating committees." ¶Because of "unpleasant connotations" acquired by the term during payola investigations, "disk jockey" was banned from the air by Poughkeepsie, N.Y.'s station WEOK. WEOK's deejays are now to be known as "musicasters." ¶ Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations...
Last week Touré, in desperation, chose the path of many impoverished young nations. Assured of a $35 million credit from Russia, he cut Guinea's ties with the French franc, announced Guinea henceforth would have its own currency which, by terms of his own decree, has no value in foreign trade. Dismayed, Shell, Texaco and Socony Mobil were mulling over whether it was worth it to stay. At the big Fria Alumina Works (48.5% owned by the U.S.'s Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp.), 300 European workers went on strike, halting production, seeking some guarantee that their paychecks...