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...included Lebanese residents of the camps, lay buried in a hastily bulldozed site that was dug by the killers near the Shatila entrance as they finished up their murderous spree. Rescue workers decided against reopening the grave. Other victims presumably still remain in houses that were dynamited in a crude attempt to cover up the extent of the atrocity...
...major factor in Texas' new economic blues has been depression in the energy industry. A worldwide glut of crude has brought a sharp drop in oil prices, killing incentives to drill new wells. The number of active drilling rigs in the state has dropped 40% since December, and refineries and petrochemical plants in the state's eastern counties have been operating at about 70% capacity for at least a year. In the Houston bankruptcy court, 98 energy-related companies have filed for Chapter 11 protection so far this year...
...conjunction with other western countries, the United States responded to Mexico's troubles with a patchwork bailout plan consisting of emergency food import credits, advance payments for Mexican crude oil, and $1.85 billion in loans from western central banks. But the real keys to the bailout were two longer-term proposals designed to restore Mexico's ability to pay off its debt in the future: $5 billion in credits from the International Monetary Fund and a $10 billion moratorium on debt repayments to major private banks. Both of these key provisions are contingent upon Mexico's acceptance of a stringent...
Though there have been no large-scale tanker disasters since 1979, lesser oil spills are a common, and underreported, occurrence. Pollution experts estimate that every year 3 million tons of crude seep across U.S. coastal waters. Though feathers may seem a risibly simple solution to a high-technology problem, pillows are being taken seriously. Barry notes with satisfaction, "We already have two oil companies that have stopped laughing and placed trial orders...
Music hall was for Britain what vaudeville was for an earlier America and what a TV variety show often still is: a potpourri of songs, sketches and buffoonery so good-naturedly crude that it becomes accepted as the quintessential wholesome family entertainment. Few in England remember music hall; in America, even fewer have heard anything beyond the comic ditties that used to serve to round out the hour on PBS after episodes of Upstairs, Downstairs. Yet with the passion of theater people for unearthing every oddment of stage history, an off-Broadway team has assembled Charlotte Sweet, an ingratiating pastiche...