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...desirable mix of products after refining. Moreover, because these countries are relatively close geographically to their European customers, the cost of transporting the crude is lower. For these reasons, the OPEC members have tacitly agreed in the past that African oil should sell for a few dollars more per barrel than the $34 price for Saudi light crude. But what the exact differential should be has been a matter of dispute...
...become dangerously dependent on unstable and unreliable foreign oil supplies. Says William Cline, a fellow at Washington's Institute for International Economics: "We could be on a roller coaster, and if the price drops too low, it could later shoot up again even higher, say to $50 a barrel...
...fill up a Strategic Petroleum Reserve. We have an opportunity to take advantage of lower prices. If the world oil market is going to be tight by the end of the decade, as I predict it will, it takes a maximum effort just to achieve a 750-million barrel target. If the reserve is not filled, it will not be available even in the 1990s. And I think if one looks at where all the military expenditures are going, the contingency that most worries military planners, other than Central Europe, is the Middle East And a Strategic Petroleum Reserve represents...
...County, Ill., by a car carrying four men. One of them pointed a 12-gauge pump shotgun at her, ordered her to strip and then to climb through a barbed-wire fence at the side of the road. As she begged for her life, her assailant thrust the shotgun barrel into her vagina and fired. After watching her agonies for several minutes, he finished her off with a blast to the throat. Less than an hour later, the marauding motorists stopped another car and told the man and woman inside it to get out and lie down on the shoulder...
Hula turned it over in his hand. It was heavy and cold, and the barrel was slick with moisture. 'No-well, once or twice. A long time...