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...Hague-that the Dutch government has offered alternative transit facilities for Soviet Jews emigrating to Israel, replacing the center that Austria promises to close (see following story). The Netherlands is also an important exporter to the U.S. of heating oil as well as other petroleum products refined from Arab crude. Thus the Arabs may well have hit The Netherlands in order to further squeeze...
Making his first appearance in the northeast is a "Klompenmaker" or crafter of Dutch wooden shoes from Wisconsin who will demonstrate how such shoes are made in the traditional manner with crude hand tools...
...Persian Gulf oil countries lifted the posted price of crude oil (a theoretical figure on which royalties and taxes are based) by a stunning 70%, to $5.11 per bbl. It will keep Arab oil revenues rising-helping to pay for the war against Israel-even as fewer barrels are shipped out. It will also force Americans, Europeans and Japanese to pay as much as 5? per gal. more for gasoline, heating oil and other products...
...next year. Supply shortages will take longer to show up-about a month's supply of Arab oil is headed for European ports in tankers already at sea-but eventually shortages are a real threat. Giovanni Theodoli, president of Chevron Oil Italiana, fears a 20% drop in Italian crude-oil imports over the next six months, and worries that "we are not going to have enough energy to support our industry." The British government already has printed ration books and stacked them in post offices...
Cosell speaks harshly about such sports and non-sports figures as Casey Stengel ("rude, crude and uncultured"), Dick Cavett ("takes himself too seriously"), and David Frost ("totally absorbed with himself"). But his strongest attacks are on sportswriters. In language similar to Richard Nixon's, he writes, "I am not interested in petty feuds with some writers. Let them do their thing, and some have done it to me pretty well...