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...prices aren't really going to turn down until the global economy turns down. I could see oil at $90 a barrel...
...receptive audience back home. She was featured in action at the Red Cross ceremony, and her name was mentioned for the first time on Soviet television. In Moscow citizens took obvious pride in her stylishness. Said a Soviet artist: "You Westerners must have thought all our women were barrel-shaped grannies like Brezhnev's wife." Some observers thought that the First Lady's performance might lead to a more formal role, heretofore unheard of, in Soviet public life...
...still more theory than hardware, and has yet to attract the hordes of high-tech defense lobbyists bred by other weapons systems. But as Star Wars evolves, the usual suspects will no doubt hungrily line up at what Democratic Congressman Norman Dicks of Washington calls a "space barrel." With some estimates of the cost of building SDI ranging up to a trillion dollars, Star Wars could prove to be the most capacious pork barrel of all time. So far, SDI research has been funded to the tune of $2.385 billion ($1.397 billion in the past year), spread among 20 large...
...near the front of the plane, drew a pistol from a plastic bag and pointed it at crew members who were distributing newspapers and magazines. Another man, seated in the rear section, jumped into the aisle and shouted, "Don't move!" In the cockpit, a third man shoved the barrel of a pistol against the captain's head. The terrorists in the cabin instructed all passengers to surrender their passports. One of the men was particularly rough. "He was pulling people's papers out of their pockets and throwing them around and shouting," Loretana Chafik, an Egyptian passenger, later recalled...
...Luqa International Airport refused to let the Egyptian airliner land, but authorities relented after Captain Galal told them that he was in imminent danger of crashing into the sea because he was nearly out of fuel. Even so, the runway lights were still off and Galal, with a gun barrel at his head, had to rely on his plane's landing lights to pierce the darkness as he touched down. The tower ordered him to taxi to a remote parking area; four police buses then blocked both ends of the airstrip...