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Great Plains has been the only large synfuels plant to start production. Most other projects were halted in the planning stage, before construction began. The industry's increasing troubles have had the most serious repercussions in the West. In Colorado, the residents of four counties that sit atop shale-oil deposits still speak of May 2, 1982, as "Black Sunday." On that day, Exxon and Tosco pulled out of their Colony Oil shale project after having invested about $1 billion. Home prices in Mesa County tumbled by as much as 50%. Unemployment climbed to 15%, and now stands...
...southern city all week. The authorities responded with two new weapons. One is a water cannon that spews purple dye onto demonstrators so they can be identified later and arrested. The press immediately dubbed the substance purple rain. The second is more lethal: a rapid-fire gun mounted atop an armored personnel carrier that shoots potentially deadly rubber bullets...
...wants a limit of 6,000 nuclear charges (i.e., warheads) atop submarine-and land-based ballistic missiles and air-launched cruise missiles. It wants to ban mobile missiles and new heavy land-based missiles...
...part from his meeting with the Shultz team, Gorbachev has been keeping a low presummit profile. He made only obligatory public appearances at last week's celebrations of the 68th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, reviewing the traditional parade of Soviet military might from atop the Lenin Mausoleum in Red Square on Thursday and delivering a brief address at a Kremlin reception expressing hope for a "fruitful" summit. But the Revolution Day symbolism was every bit as unyielding as any of Gorbachev's remarks to his American visitors. NO TO STAR WARS proclaimed many of the posters tacked up around...
...front of some 50 journalists gathered in the new bunker-like Soviet compound atop Mount Alto in northwest Washington, Yurchenko vehemently insisted that he had never defected. Occasionally smirking, often scowling, always looking tough and in command, he freely alternated between Russian and English as he spun his tale of being "forcibly abducted" in Rome by American agents, drugged and flown to the U.S. against his will. For "three horrible months" he was held at a safe house in Fredericksburg, Va., Yurchenko claimed, taking apparent glee at revealing its exact location and details. Only on Nov. 2, when...