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Sadat called for preliminary planning after initial Egyptian victories in the October war, and Mashour took the cue to solicit bids from salvage firms in France, Italy, Holland, West Germany and Yugoslavia. Mashour is close to signing a contract, probably with a Dutch-West German-Yugoslav consortium. The first job of the clearers will be to rid the banks of their lethal carpet of mines, and that step alone should take a month. Then divers will go into the water to pinpoint the positions and depths of wrecks. Silt, once thought to be a major barrier to reopening, will...
...remains is pulverized rock with at least a 12% greater volume than it had before it was mined. Reason: there are spaces between the rock particles that did not exist when the rock was in the ground. What can be done with this spent shale? Colony Development Operation, a consortium of companies including Atlantic Richfield and Standard Oil of Ohio, has spent $1,000,000 on detailed environmental studies of the problem. Conclusion: the powdered shale can be dumped into canyons, watered, fertilized and planted with vegetation to prevent winds from blowing it into dust storms. All this...
...father's recent death. He enlists the aid of a private detective, plus journalists on his father's newsmagazine and his own executive lackeys to get to the roots of the problem. The roots, not surprisingly, are rotten with corruption, and lead to an international consortium headed by an Italian businessman who had something nefarious to do with the Jews in Rome during the second World...
...consortium's largest single shareholder, Harvard has the power and the authority to influence Middle South's decisions on a controversial, 2800-megawatt, coal-burning power plant that Arkansas Power and Light, a Middle South subsidiary, wishes to inflict upon the Arkansas River, the air and the agricultural community near White Bluffs...
This divide-and-conquer energy diplomacy is already yielding political and economic dividends for the Arabs. In Japan, a consortium of bankers said that they would go ahead with a loan of $30 million to Abu Dhabi, supposedly to build roads and hospitals. European banks had refused to make a similar loan because they feared that the money would really be used to finance the war against Israel. But the Japanese bankers, who are heavily influenced by the Tokyo government, evidently felt that they were in no position to refuse: Japan has to import nearly all its oil, 82% from...