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The arrangement leaves Iraq looking for customers for 60% of the oil it used to sell to the West. As the price for its derring-do in taking over I.P.C., Baghdad faces a severe cutback in its ambitious plans for agricultural and industrial development. The Baath regime has already ordered...
Social Science Professor David Klein has not actually made that proposal, but in a recent issue of the Journal of Safety Research, he makes a sweeping generalization about snowmobile enthusiasts: they court danger to achieve satisfactions that their dull jobs cannot provide. The problem, Klein theorizes, stems from the discrepancy...
The break was executed with all the attention to detail and derring-do of a commando raid. Early one evening last week, two well-dressed young men called at the home of Billy Rial Castillo, 30, a Mormon missionary who lives across the street from Montevideo's Punta Carreta...
On the U.S. side, too, the airlift had come under mounting criticism. In June the Senate Appropriations Committee, noting that the flights had cost a total of $4,000,000, threatened to cut off Government financing. U.S. critics also pointed out that the airlift discriminated against other Latin Americans who...
SAVAGE, THE MAN OF BRONZE! Startled, the browser glanced left and right; nobody was looking. Then with a furtive movement he snatched The Man of Bronze off its shelf and, slipping it deftly under a copy of Hazlitt's essays, strolled thoughtfully toward the cashier. Doc Savage? If you...