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...idea with him that her own bidding would drive up the price of the diary. She "borrowed" a key in order to rifle the hotel room of the chief U.S. negotiator; in the meantime, she wrote, the Bolivian police visited hers. When it looked as if the U.S. consortium might get the diary, Michéle offered $400,000, though her backer had no intention of paying that much. The Bolivians, she reports, were not fooled but were happy to see the price go up. Or at least they were until possible lawsuits by Che's family drove...
...ahead last week. Meeting in Paris, representatives of Pakistan and the World Bank finally selected the contractor who will build the giant Tarbela Dam on the Indus River in remote West Pakistan. Winner of the job, with a bid of $623 million for the eight-year project, is a consortium of French and Italian companies led by Impregilo of Milan...
Second Lowest. Impregilo and its partners had actually submitted the second lowest bid to build what will eventually be the largest earthen dam in history. Lower by $75 million was another consortium of companies in Germany and Switzerland headed by the German construction company Hochtief. But when the Germans and Swiss reviewed their figures, they asked to be allowed to raise the original bid by $50 million. Pakistani officials demurred. They gave the job instead to Impregilo, which has already gained impressive dam-building experience from projects in the Middle East and Africa...
...idea of an air bus-only to fumble away their chances to cash in on it first. Technicians from Scandinavian Airlines broached the notion at the 1963 Paris Air Show. It was four years later when France, Britain and West Germany got together to form a manufacturing consortium to build an air bus. Their ef forts have met with one delay after another, and the British have yet to build even a test model of the RollsRoyce engine that is supposed to power the plane. As matters stand, the Douglas DC-10 should be flying first, probably by late...
Known as the center of Environmental and Behavioral Biology, it will coordinate the activities and facilities of several Harvard institutions already involved in this work. "It's a consortium of interested persons, scattered in different areas of study, who have recognized this as a coherent field," Edward O. Wilson, professor of Zoology and chairman of the new center, said last night...