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...scheme cannot be dismissed as just a pipe dream. Last month Gaddafi opened a plant at Brega, south of Benghazi, where some of the 73-ton pipeline sections will be made. Price Bros. of Dayton, a company that is prevented by U.S. restrictions from operating in Libya, provided most of the technology to build the plant. The main contractor, the Dong-Ah Construction Co. of South Korea, is bringing in 8,000 workers to make and lay the pipes. The project seems to be unaffected by Washington's ban on U.S. exports to Libya or by President Reagan's January...
Although some observers thought that the Caracas delegates might try to form a "debtors cartel" that would renounce foreign financial obligations, the representatives stopped short of that move. "The idea of a debtor cartel was definitely put aside at this conference," said Mailson Nóbrega, secretary-general of Brazil's Finance Ministry, as the meeting came to a close at week...
...colonel. Exxon announced that it was withdrawing all its oil and gas operations from Libya. The company will turn over to Gaddafi its 49% stake in oilfields capable of producing 150,000 bbl. per day, plus a refinery and natural gas complex near the port city of Brega. Estimated value of Exxon's loss: $50 million to $100 million...
...regime have been openly hostile for months. Last June the oil company complained that Libya's premium price of $41 per bbl. was outrageous and began sharply curtailing production from its Libyan wells. At the same time the company was worried because some of its workers at the Brega facilities were being forced out of their homes to provide more housing for soldiers in Gaddafi's growing army...
...organized planning of the early followers of Loyola in the 16th Century. Led by Manoel de Nobrega in 1549, the first six Jesuits in Brazil began to plan the "new state" . . . anticipating the moral equality of all members of the human family. Through miscegenation and education, No brega and those who followed him hoped to create a new nation, if not a new race, homogeneous and thus harmonious...
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