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...comes from gulf producers, in contrast to nearly 25% of Western Europe's and 60% of Japan's. Some of the 5.7 million barrels of gulf oil consumed each day by Western Europe and Japan is pumped through pipelines to terminals in the Red Sea and Mediterranean. The bulk, however, is shipped out in supertankers that must run the gauntlet of the gulf and the narrow Strait of Hormuz...
Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, demonstrated once more that he still has the ability to outlast if not outwit his enemies. Ever since Israel drove the bulk of the P.L.O. from Lebanon in 1982, such radical Palestinian leaders as George Habash and Nayef Hawatmeh have sided with Syrian President Hafez Assad in opposing Arafat's leadership. But last week, when the Palestine National Council, the P.L.O.'s so-called parliament in exile, met in Algiers for its first session in 2 1/2 years, friends and rivals alike cheered when Arafat shouted, "This Palestinian land shall remain Arab...
...said that the University should be morecareful in selecting teaching fellows, who carrythe bulk of instruction at Harvard. "I think it'simportant for the Undergraduate Council to lookinto how teaching fellows are trained and picked,"Wu said...
...left their training camps in Honduras and established new bases inside Nicaragua. Their aim has been to resupply troops in the northern province of Jinotega. While still small in number, the camps are becoming an important adjunct to the air-supply operations that furnish rebels in Nicaragua with the bulk of their food and weapons...
...first room of the exhibit contains worksdating from the 1850's through the early 1870's.This was a period of great social upheaval inRussia, culminating in the freeing of the serfs in1861. Nevertheless, the bulk of the populationcontinued to live in extreme poverty and hardship.Artists sought to convey the harsh realities ofpeasant life, to expose the grimness of themedieval legacy, by treating their subject matterwith a critical--and realistic...