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Among Mao Tse-tung's most famous sayings is, "Power grows out of the barrel of a gun." Mao's successors now realize that one kind of power China needs most flows from the end of a pipeline. In an attempt to increase oil output and hence speed the country's economic development, 16 Chinese petroleum experts, led by Sun Ching-wen, the nation's No. 1 oilman, have spent the past three weeks in the U.S. at the invitation of Secretary Schlesinger. Before they flew home this week, the Chinese were given a red-carpet...
...been awash with excess production of some 2 million bbl. per day, and Western oil stocks are currently 25% above pre-1973 embargo levels. Producers like Libya and Algeria, even while arguing for an official price hike, have been shaving their market prices by 40¢ or more per barrel...
Bearded, blue-jeaned and barrel-chested, Alexander pursues his work with a zeal worthy of the Grand Inquisitor. Like his two assistants, he was involved in the hippie movement, then found Jesus and set up a mission in the Haight-Ashbury wilderness. "We told the protesters that they were fundamentally right in their critique of society but that their answers were inadequate." He was accused of being a fascist, or a pawn...
Khan plays the been, the oldest classical string instrument on the Indian subcontinent, and Gopaldas plays the pukhawaj, a barrel drum that is India's most ancient percussion instrument...
...industry lobbying and killed a plan to emphasize environmental considerations in offshore oil leases. Carter wanted to shelve 23 major water projects dear to the lawmakers' local interests, but he had to settle for killing nine and curtailing four?still a sharp break from the tradition of unstoppable pork barrel construction...