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Boston's school bus drivers--on strike since October 9--Sunday announced a national boycott of ARA Services, Inc., saying the bus company has "come to Boston to rip off the communities and workers...
...would make any real effort to censor the program not only impossible but counterproductive-a fact of life about U.S. freedom of expression that even the Saudis acknowledged. Exxon, which spends $5 million a year on public TV and is also one of the four U.S. partners in the Ara, bian American Oil Co., issued a statement that it would be "extremely unfortunate" if the show were to hurt U.S.-Saudi relations, but insisted it would not try to inhibit its being shown by threatening to cut off its PBS spending. Mobil, another PBS angel and Aramco partner...
...recurrence of CMV, a chronic viral disease that sometimes endangers newborn babies and kidney- transplant patients. Israeli doctors have also used IF eyedrops to combat a contagious and incapacitating viral eye infection commonly known as "pink eye." Researchers are now trying a combination of IF and the antiviral drug ara-A in patients with chronic hepatitis B infections. Interferon investigators have high hopes that the drug will be equally active against other viral diseases...
...biggest beneficiaries of all is the Arabian American Oil Co., the Delaware corporation that is jointly owned by Exxon, Texaco, Mobil and SoCal, and pumps the oil that flows from Saudi Ara bia. Last year the company earned profits of more than $580 million, but it paid no U.S. income taxes at all on its Saudi bonanza. In fact, it has paid no such taxes since...
...There is no candidate," Brazil's Eugenio de Araújo Sales told a friend last week. "We are simply going to have to look for one." During the hunt, new names kept cropping up on the list of papabili. For instance, Florence's Giovanni Benelli, 57, a kingmaker and a possible candidate himself, was heard by a Vatican insider to say he favors Albino Luciani, 65, of Venice, particularly because of their shared aversion to Communism. Carlo Confalonieri, who carries much weight among Italians, although he is too old to vote, agreed. Suddenly Luciani, heretofore seen...