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With three of the top nine players unable to make the match, Barnaby had to "dig into the barrel," as he described it yesterday, for Steve Mead and Tim Morgan, both of whom had little trouble in dispatching their opponents...
...have had to dig into the barrel," Barnaby said, "but we didn't come up with chaff, we came with wheat." Mead, who has been having problems with injuries this season, moved into the number seven spot, while Morgan played at number nine...
...when their wells run dry. The Arabs have turned down requests for increased production, and even set production ceilings. Last year, Kuwait turned down a request from Kuwait Oil Co., a jointly owned subsidiary of Gulf and British Petroleum, for a production increase. Instead Kuwait set a 3 million barrel day limit on oil exports...
Last May Deputy Secretary of the Treasury William E. Simon told a Senate committee that there was only one sure cure for U.S. fuel shortages: "power to create a barrel of oil or gasoline." His appointment as head of the new Federal Energy Administration will not make him that kind of magician, but it will vastly enhance his ability to impress on the rest of Government a sense of urgency about the energy crisis. Simon has been displaying that urgency for months...
...Europe while officially punishing only one nation. By allowing the continued-though significantly reduced-flow of oil through the Dutch port, they prevent total European collapse (which they do not want) while gaining more efficient control over that flow than if they had to track down where each barrel of their oil is going. Just as easily as they wink at the subterfuge, they can stop it when they please -and really freeze out Europe...