Word: crudely
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American cities are highly susceptible to a crude nuclear attack, according to a report released Wednesday by Harvard researchers...
Iraq is required to apply each month to the U.N. for approval of the price it charges for crude. But Iraq usually requests a number at least 50˘ per bbl. below the going price. Then Baghdad demands an illegal surcharge of, say, 30˘ per bbl. on top of the U.N.-approved price. The arrangement still gives buyers a 20˘ discount...
Then there's the pipeline from northern Iraq to the Turkish Mediterranean coast, which until recently exported up to hundreds of thousands of barrels a day of Iraqi crude, all of it outside the U.N.-sanctions system. Long dependent on Iraqi oil, Jordan illicitly imports some 110,000 bbl. a day, for which it pays a below-market price directly to the Iraqi government. Yet another pipeline runs from northern Iraq to Banias, a Syrian port, with a second outlet in Lebanon. It currently carries some 230,000 bbl. a day, generating annual revenue estimated at more than $1 billion...
...spend it because it will help ensure millions of barrels of cheap Middle Eastern oil. In great contrast, the American government spends only $10 billion, or about $50 per family, on developmental aid for poor countries that aren’t lucky enough to sit on gallons of crude...
...TIME/CNN poll, 61% of Americans either oppose a war in Iraq on any terms, or would support one only if it had U.N. backing. In the Arab world, diplomats believe a U.N. mandate for military action is essential if a war is not to be seen as a crude display of American power. Keeping the issue of Iraq under the U.N. umbrella, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told TIME recently, "would remove the idea that there are ulterior motives for whatever actions that are being taken against Iraq, as an effort to put Iraq under the thumb...