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...investments to ones that have more political clout. One reason: they genuinely, though wrongly, believe that U.S. support for Israel stems partly from a Zionist hammerlock on U.S. business, and are eager to break it. One industrial area that the Arabs are certain to aim at is so-called "downstream" oil activity-refining and marketing in consuming nations. Kuwait is already considering buying a large chunk of Gulf Oil stock (from whom is not clear...
State police sealed off Grafton, Ill., at the confluence of the Illinois and Mississippi rivers, when most of the town was deluged. Downstream, the Mississippi boiled along at a rate of 13.5 million gallons per second, enough to fill all of New York City's daily water needs in a minute and a half...
...post office has it on a stamp." Another guest to offer a toast was Journalist-Author Theodore White; he compared the evening to the lyrical impulses of Chinese Tang Dynasty poets, who were able to mix the past and future in such images as "floating candles and wine cups downstream." Said White: "Clare is past and future...
...Kuwaitis still seem to favor foreign real estate-from a new high-rise Holiday Inn in Beirut to a $27 million chunk of the Champs-Elysées, where a palatial House of Kuwait is to be built. The Saudis are determined to build or buy their own "downstream" facilities-which, in the language of the oilmen, means oil refineries and even chains of service stations in Western Europe and the U.S. They also have plans for an ambitious program of industrialization at home. And they emphasize that they would welcome U.S. participation. Minister Yamani, in fact, envisions an economic...
...photographs of haggard men newly recruited to the captured ranks, as an average of three B-52s were shot down every two days. Vignettes of the flyers' fates materialized out of North Viet Nam too. One B-52 pilot was inflating his life raft twelve miles downstream from Hanoi in an attempt to escape, when he was surrounded by ferrymen. His last transmission on his survival radio: "Everything O.K. I am surrounded. I surrender...