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...funding for the Synthetic Fuels Corporation, which has financed several large-scale projects. The bill provides only $500 million for a Department of Energy program of synfuels research. The Senate is expected to pass a similar measure. As Congress has grown increasingly skeptical of synfuels, so too has the DOE. Last month it decided to withdraw $1.4 billion in aid to Great Plains. As a result, the plant's private consortium of owners announced that it was pulling out of the project...
Great Plains is now under the control of the DOE. Last week the department sent a team of investigators to inspect Great Plains and confer with plant managers. Some employees hoped the Government would find a way to keep the project running. Said Michael Mujadin, the operations director: "Once they see things for themselves, I'm confident the DOE will let us continue." But that may prove impossible if Congress decides to cut off synfuels funding...
...Coast (pop. 10 million) are expected this week to endorse 80-year-old Félix Houphouët-Boigny's uncontested bid for a sixth five-year term as President. In Liberia (pop. 2 million), however, opposition politicians continue to allege fraud in the recent balloting that President Samuel K. Doe, a former army sergeant who first came to power in a 1980 coup, says gave him a popular mandate...
...Monrovia reported that rebels had attacked the Executive Mansion at dawn Tuesday, using artillery and heavy machine guns in a full-scale battle with government troops. Soon after the fighting began, former Army Commander General Thomas Quiwonkpa announced on the radio that he had overthrown President Samuel K. Doe, 33, whom he accused of corruption and brutality. That evening, however, Doe assured his countrymen that the coup attempt had failed, although Quiwonkpa was still at large...
...human rights group EarthRights International brought Unocal to federal court in Los Angeles on behalf of Burmese villagers suffering from the alleged violations during pipeline construction, which ended in 1998. The suit, Doe v. Unocal, was filed under the Alien Tort Claims Act, a 1789 law that allows aliens to sue in U.S. courts for violations of international law. The group pursued a separate suit in California state court...