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...that end, Shell has gone farther than any of the Sisters toward "whitening" its production-that is, squeezing more high-profit gasoline, kerosene and other light fuels out of each barrel of crude. It is also profiting handsomely from its 30% interest in the large natural-gas fields in The Netherlands...
...Freeport Sulphur Co., amid signs advertising bail bondsmen and flood insurance, are the offices of white Attorney Joseph Defley, a former FBI agent who 14 years ago married the sheriff of Plaquemines' daughter and moved down from Chicago. One of his clients is Merlis Broussard, 45, a barrel-chested black construction worker who once helped dig a crayfish pond behind Chalin Perez's new home. They have just won a federal court suit to end the parish's method of selecting council members, which has long kept blacks from exercising political power...
...them hard. Young oenology graduates clamor to join Heitz because he is demanding, and he has them do everything. To them, he is a combination of Captain Bligh and Father Flanagan. With Heitz working alongside, they perform every operation: run the crushers and the bottling line, even paint the barrel hoops black because Joe wants them to look neat. His philosophy: "If your place looks like you don't care, your employees won't care. And extreme meticulousness is the most important factor in making fine wine." Or almost any other product...
...Soviet society was not prepared for the short-lived libertarian movement. The worst enemies of escaping prisoners were people - their "fellow countrymen"- who shot at them or joined the pack of police pursuers. (The penalty for helping an escapee was 25 years; the reward for catching one was a barrel of herring.) When the women prisoners who had survived the Kengir uprising were marched out of the camp at machine-gun point, jeering female inhabitants of the nearby settlement shouted "Dirty whores!" at them...
...Afghanistan, where settling old political scores through the barrel of a gun is practically a tradition, the coup was relatively tidy. The rebels struck just after the Daoud regime had sealed the country's borders to tighten security before a meeting of foreign ministers of 25 non-aligned countries that was due to begin in Kabul late this week. Though some 200 people had died in five hours of fighting in the capital, by week's end the new rulers appeared to be consolidating their power. Their first priority seemed to be to explain to Afghanistan...