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...elephants, you go where they are. But it has been one of our goals for a long time to make Occidental more domestic oriented." Cities Service has 10.6 million acres of undeveloped U.S. land, which are believed to hold at least 300 million bbl. of oil and 3 trillion cu. ft. of natural...
...volunteer assistants, and financed by a $10,000 grant from the Public Art Fund, a private foundation that aids civic art projects, began hauling rocks off the site, which is a landfill intended for a development of offices and apartments called Battery Park City. They laid down 700 cu. yds. of topsoil in a 2-in. layer and hand dug 285 furrows. Then they sowed 6 bu. of hard, red spring wheat donated by the North Dakota Wheat Commission. While office workers watched skeptically from nearby towers or paid lunchtime visits in three-piece suits, Denes and her friends weeded...
...next day Begin said that U.N. Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar would not be welcome to visit Jerusalem if he went through with a plan to meet with P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat. Still later in the week, when the Security Council debated a resolution to condemn Israel for defying previous U.N. demands on Lebanon, Israeli Ambassador Yehuda Blum got into an angry argument with Soviet Ambassador Richard Ovinnikov. The Soviet diplomat told the council that his government favored "severe action" against Israel because it was "imperative that Beirut not join the list of cities such...
...Mackinac Island, Mich., last month, representatives from the Great Lakes states and two Canadian provinces (Ontario and Quebec) listened to some telling statistics from University of Michigan Civil Engineering Professor Jonathan Bulkeley. He pointed out that even a relatively small diversion from the Great Lakes, say 10,000 cu. ft. per sec.-about the volume of water sought by Montana from Lake Superior-would lower water levels enough throughout the interlocking system to cause the loss of $35 million in navigation revenue and $80 million in electrical generating ability...
...security analysts: "I recognize that in the near term our best shot at reversing our reserves decline may be to buy reserves." Cities Service will provide plenty. The Tulsa-based firm has land believed to hold at least 307 million bbl. of crude and more than 3 trillion cu...