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...finding: better than average quality, the same type as in Iraq's big fields. When the drill casings were pulled off, the gusher spurted 60 feet into the air. The whole nation rejoiced over the discovery. Israelis hugged each other in city streets...
...first backfield for the varsity during the drill were tailback Matt Bots ford, fullback Tony Gauntly quarterback Leo Daley, and wingback Ron Eikenberry, subbing for slightly injured John Simourian...
CUBAN OIL will get a big push from Standard Oil Co. (Indiana). Standard has earmarked $10 million to drill in 12 million acres of south Cuba's coastal land and tideland, will own a permanent half-interest in any productive wells it brings in after spending the total...
...I.R.A.'s estimated strength is 5,000 men. Its units drill openly, sometimes within sight of Northern Ireland. Its declared intention is to terrorize Northern Ireland until authority crumbles. Last May, to demonstrate that it had support inside Northern Ireland, it contested every North Ireland constituency in the British general election, polled 150,000 votes out of 650,000 cast. Two of its candidates, both prisoners of the Omagh raid and now in British jails, were elected, and the House of Commons (which does not admit felons) was later forced to unseat them. The jailed Sinn Feiner, who recontested...
...school," says ames E Greene, professor of education the University of Georgia, "I spent days learning the letters of the alphabet and a lot of meaningless syllables like AA, BB and AB. What the hell did I care for AB? The whole idea is not to drill the pupil in abstract symbols at first but to bring about what the educators call "reading readiness...