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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...successfully undergone two lie-detector tests and ten days of twelve-hour interrogations by Government agents, and his story remains unshaken. The Securities and Exchange Commission, the Justice Department and the IRS are pur suing investigations. An Amoco spokesman acknowledges that the SEC has subpoenaed four high-ranking current and former executives along with corporate records from the Atlanta office...
...water depths ranging from a few yards to 1,000 ft. or more. Oilmen have been drilling into the outer continental shelf since the mid-'50s, and the 20,000 wells they have sunk, mostly in the Gulf of Mexico, account for 14% of the nation's current domestic oil production and 23% of its gas. The next place they hope to develop as a major energy source is a tough one: the floor of the ice-jammed Beaufort Sea, about 275 miles above the Arctic Circle, off Alaska's nearly barren north coast...
...Dutch theological students joined the campaign, rounding up more than 60,000 signatures for a petition taken to the Vatican as the hearing began. Willebrands will be back in Rome with his bishops in January for an unprecedented meeting with the Pope aimed at bringing order out of the current doctrinal chaos in the Dutch church. A new poll in The Netherlands shows that only 47% of Catholics there think Christ is the Son of God, compared with 70% in 1966; fewer still be lieve in a personal God or life after death...
...sulk about, even if the band is not in the highest OPEC aristocracy of rock. This is a matter of no particular moment to the group. It coasts past trends and floats over sales curves just by staying a little outside and to the left of the main current...
...boys around the stove in my father's hardware store in Tiffin, Iowa. You have to speak plainly or get your ass chewed." The boys, he quickly adds, are sophisticated businessmen who run farms worth millions of dollars. Says Gartner: "The Register reader cares more about news and current events than people in other places...