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Rhodesian Chrome #17673

ABC Evening News for Tuesday, Jan 25, 1972
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(Studio) Treasury Department lifts embargo on United States chrome imports from Rhodesia.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

(Steubenville, Ohio) Use of chrome ore featured. Sources defined. United Nations ban on trade with white ruled Rhodesia, Africa, gives USSR a monopoly; prices tripled. Congress lifts Rhodesian ban, resulting in United Nations outcry. Many UN ntns., however, suspected of such trade. [Foote Mineral Bd. Chairperson, L.G. Tony BLISS - condemns UN. censure of US-Rhodesia trade.]
REPORTER: Bill Brannigan

Reporter(s):: Brannigan, Bill;; Smith, Howard K.
Duration:: 00:03:00

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