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...perhaps 20%. Among the countries most seriously affected would be Japan (which imports 58% of its oil from the gulf), Italy (46%), Spain (39%), and France (35%). In response to oil fears, the Tokyo stock exchange last Thursday experienced the second-worst day in its history. Furthermore, an oil cutoff could generate unrest and even upheaval in some of the gulf states. It could also lead the Arab countries to make withdrawals from Western banks, thereby putting added strain on the already troubled financial markets...
Sophomore Paul Vallone threw in to cutoff man Elliott Rivera, who saw Jumbo John Andon heading for third base, where teammate Tom Snarsky was standing Rivera ran over and tagged Andon, then threw to second to get Farren, who thought he could catch Harvard sleeping. Shortstop DiCesare, fearing that the throw was headed for center field, knocked the ball down Second baseman Gaylord Lyman, who would have caught RivGaylord Lyman, who would have caught Rivera's throw, saw Snarsky head towards home picked up the ball and gunned it to catcher Maspons, who tagged Snarsky to complete to double play...
...suggested that the President articulate first principles: nothing for the Polish government, a cutoff of Polish imports into the U.S., a policy of providing food for the Polish people if we were guaranteed that it would reach them. The Defense Department and most of the President's staff, out of genuine outrage but also because of a reflexive belief in the power of the public relations gesture, urged sanctions. To the advocates of this policy, the trans-Siberian pipeline-designed to carry up to 20 billion cubic meters a year of natural gas 3,300 miles from Siberia...
...Duarte, who charged the government with election fraud when he lost the 1972 contest to Colonel Arturo Armando Molina. An important reason for the military's new attitude, of course, has been heavy pressure from the Reagan Administration, backed by the certainty of a U.S. military aid cutoff if the soldiers try to overturn the election result. "The military leaders have said that they now realize their job is to stay out of politics and fight this war," says a State Department official. Declares the Salvadoran army chief of operations, Colonel Miguel Antonio Mendéz: "In my opinion...
Still, he is usually on the left. The liberal Americans for Democratic Action gives his Senate record a rating of 80 out of 100; Mondale gets a 92, Glenn a 65. Like almost every other Democratic presidential candidate, Hart favors a cutoff of aid to El Salvador unless its leaders put a stop to quasiofficial political murder of civilians. Domestically, Hart says, "I see Government as a problem solver." For him that includes aggressive efforts by Washington to remedy racial and sexual inequities. He has even endorsed the problematic feminist principle of equal pay for comparable work...