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National Geographic : 1982 Aug
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big. Small is beautiful, but big is useful. So we welcomed foreign investment at the Bougainville mine and now at Ok Tedi." A 1.5-billion-dollar project, with participa tion by PNG and firms from Australia, the United States, and West Germany, Ok Tedi will mine gold and copper in the Star Moun tains of Western Province. It is expected to produce a major share of Papua New Guin ea's export earnings by the mid-eighties 170 while the Bougainville deposit is declining. Critics of Sir Julius's approach tend to see it as a repudiation of the program of his predecessor, Michael Somare, PNG's first prime minister. I met Mr. Somare, now leader of the opposition, in his office in Port Moresby. He is not a big man physically, but he is a bik man in the eyes of his countrymen. "Chan goes for the quick buck," he said, "the shift to a cash economy, but this hasn't NationalGeographic, August 1982
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