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Washington observers were inclined to agree that the changes so far were relatively minor, though hopeful. Full-scale U.S. aid to India is being resumed after a halt caused by the Kashmir war, and an aid-India consortium, organized by the World Bank, will soon announce a $900 million loan to finance imports. Mrs. Gandhi makes it clear that the fact that Western bankers approve of her economics does not rob her of in dependence in foreign affairs. Last week she also announced plans for a visit to the Soviet Union in July...
...builders is Milan's Impregilo, which is a permanent com bine of three firms. It is responsible for four African dams, another in Iran, and one under way on the Euphrates River in Turkey. Along with these projects, worth $300 million altogether, Impregilo recently outbid an Anglo-German consortium for a $250 million hydroelectric project on Peru's Mantaro River. Tackling smaller-paying jobs as well, Impregilo is helping move the temples of Abu Simbel before the area is fully flooded...
...lately has been discovered in much greater quantities than anyone had expected. Dutch gas resources have proved to be the world's second richest (after the U.S.'s), and in Britain, there have been five major strikes in the North Sea and Yorkshire since last fall. A consortium of the British government's Gas Council and three U.S.owned companies reported last week that a newly found well yields 25 million cu. ft. of gas daily, double the group's earlier claims...
Last week, in a precedent-setting decision, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia struck a major blow in behalf of private power companies. The three-judge court upheld a 1964 Federal Power Commission decision licensing Pacific Northwest Power Co., a consortium of four private power firms, to build a $257 million, 670-ft.-high dam and a generating plant at Mountain Sheep, in the middle reaches of the Snake River astride the Oregon-Idaho border. The court unanimously rejected the challenge of the Washington Public Power Supply System, a group of 16 public utilities, which...
Ships & Factories. "We talked and talked for seven weeks, and toward the end our heads were spinning," says one of the German negotiators, "but it was worth it." With the West German government guaranteeing credits of $87.5 million, Demag is now the major partner in a consortium, also involving French and Belgian firms, that is confident it will wrap up a $150 million contract to build a steel-rolling mill for Red China. It will be the biggest deal yet in the rush among America's allies to open up the Chinese market...