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Moving overseas is not always easy. Many countries, such as Brazil and Peru, have tough labor laws that make it almost impossible to fire an incompetent worker, and others exercise strict control over investment. In some countries the problem is payola for government licenses, etc. Blueprint standards have to be changed, laws and languages learned...
...criticize any aspect of any painting, were instantly thrown out. When Walter P. Chrysler Jr. wrote a humble, flattering letter asking permission to see the paintings, Barnes replied, masquerading as a fictitious secretary: "It is impossible at this time to show to Doctor Barnes your letter . . . because he gave strict orders not to be disturbed during his present efforts to break the world's record for goldfish swallowing...
...election" have long served as satirical shorthand to describe a rigged vote, and Charles de Gaulle's first four elections in Algeria did little to change the time-honored meaning of the phrase. But for his fifth Algerian election, completed last week, De Gaulle's orders were strict: the French army was to put no pressure on Moslem voters; civilians were to run the polls and, where possible, the transportation to them. Last week De Gaulle had one result he was after: the first honest political profile of revolt-torn Algeria...
...Nigeria, a national "church" that sprang up in the '40s has largely subsided, but natives flock to such offshoots as the Commercial Vision Seeing, the Father Divine Apostolic, and the Cherubim and Seraphim churches. Lagos has its local "Jesus" in one Emmanuel Odumosu, who insists on strict abstinence from alcohol but has seven wives and rides in a luxurious Pontiac car driven by a chauffeur...
...condemn the inadmissible provocative actions of the U.S. Air Force with regard to the Soviet Union, and secondly, refrain from continuing such actions and such a policy against the U.S.S.R. in the future. It goes without saying that in this case the U.S. Government cannot fail to call to strict account those who are directly guilty of the deliberate violation by American aircraft of the borders of the U.S.S.R. Until this is done, the Soviet government sees no possibility for productive negotiations with the U.S. Government at the summit conference...