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...peasant from pharaonic days would find life little altered along much of the riverbank today: land is still divided into tiny plots, and the precious water is still raised from the river by having a cow or blind-folded water buffalo turn a primitive screw or a crude wooden lift balanced by a weight of mud. The ordinary meal of an Egyptian fellah still consists of foul beans; moulekieh, a soup made of the greens that grow among cotton plants, is a dish reserved for special days...
Crashing through choppy seas on a misty morning came the four-year-old 330,000-ton supertanker Venoil. It was carrying 250,000 tons of crude oil from the Iranian petroleum port at Kharg Island and was bound for Nova Scotia. At 9:39, the Venoil plowed into another ship. As coincidence would have it, the second ship was Venoil's sister Venpet, traveling in ballast in the opposite direction. Both supertankers had been built at the same yard in Japan at a cost of $28 million each; both were owned by the Bethlehem Steel Corp., and chartered...
Among other things, the Japanese promised to abolish some nontariff barriers, eliminate certain export promotion measures, stockpile crude oil, liberalize foreign aid and speed up the growth rate of the Japanese economy from its present annual rate of 5.3% to 7% next year. A key provision calls for tariff reductions averaging 23% on 318 items, mostly industrial goods. For example, the 6.4% Japanese tariff on imported autos would be entirely eliminated. Tariffs on computers would be dropped from 13.5% to 10.5% and on color film from 16% to 11% -two important items. But quotas on the amount of beef that...
...tide of color threatens to engulf Britian." So warns the National Front, a neofascist party whose main goal is to expel the estimated 2 million "coloreds" - Jamaicans, Indians, Pakistanis and other nonwhite former colonials - who have migrated to Britain since 1945. The ten-year-old front mixes crude, inflammatory racism with a dose of ultranationalism (calling for increased defense spending and high protective tariffs, for example). Official membership is only about 20,000, but the front has attracted a following among working-class whites and is the country's fastest-growing political movement. Although it has yet to elect...
...help coordinate nationwide samizdat, a publishing operation has been started by Scientist Miroslaw Chojecki. Called NOWA, an acronym for Independent Publishing House, Chojecki's printing establishment in a Warsaw apartment includes 20 typewriters, six crude presses and a skilled team of 30 people who help print, bind and distribute samizdat books. The workers charge nothing for their labor...