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...teach-in on the role of the Gulf Oil Company in Portuguese Africa will be held at 2 p.m. today in Burr B. Robert Van Liorop and Abel Guimares--both of whom have extensive experience in the colonies--will speak. The entire community is invited and there is no charge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GULF OIL | 3/16/1972 | See Source »

...genies back into the box, have no fear about that," boasts Rhodesian Information Minister P.K. Van Der Byl. The blacks, however, will not soon forget what they have learned in the past six weeks. "It may take six years, it may take ten," says Methodist Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the council's principal leader, "but we will not stop until we have reached our goal-freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: The Blacks Vote No | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

Humphrey has strong support among labor leaders and blacks. I.W. Abel of the United Steelworkers of America, Floyd Smith of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, and Lane Kirkland, reputed to be George Meany's likely successor as head of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., are all ardent Humphrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Odyssey of Hubert Humphrey | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

...corporations with plants overseas and set up a commission to draft a quota system aimed at keeping at 1965-69 levels any imports that start to win a sizable share of the U.S. market. As for President Nixon's 10% surcharge on foreign goods. United Steelworkers President I.W. Abel has called it "only a baby step in the right direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Labor's Turnabout on Trade | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

Died. Colonel Rudolf Abel, 68, head of a Soviet spy network in the U.S. between 1948 and 1957; of lung cancer; in Moscow. Though he was later to deny that espionage consists of "riproaring adventures [or] a string of tricks," Abel had his share of both. He was an accomplished linguist and a radio technician who posed as a photographer and amateur artist while leading his double life in Brooklyn. There he rented a $35-a-month studio near the federal courthouse. Like fictional spies, Abel used a variety of arcane items: hollow bolts and coins to carry messages, phony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 29, 1971 | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

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