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...despite those troubles, U.S. Steel last week announced that it was offering about $6.4 billion in cash and notes to acquire Marathon Oil, the 17th biggest American petroleum company. The deal ranks just behind last summer's successful $7.3 billion bid by Du Pont, the chemical giant, to buy Conoco, the ninth biggest American oil firm. Critics immediately began charging that U.S. Steel should be using the money for its own development. Lionel Olmer, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, said that the agreement "calls into question the seriousness of the steel industry's efforts to modernize...
...well, back to the Mississippi, where the French and the British waged constant warfare along their river boundary. In fact, the final battle of the Mississippi War took place as late as 1865. Only then, at the Battle of Prairie du Chien, did the combined British and American armies, under the leadership of General Sir Ulysses S. Grant, persuade the French and their Indian allies to stay on their side of the water. After that, Paris seemed to lose interest in its third of the North American continent, and with French blessing, the newly independent nation of Louisiana unfurled...
...hundreds will soon begin bringing in documents. Among the largest claims to date: $50 million by the Houston firm of Brown & Root for the construction of shipyards and naval bases; $100 million by General Telephone & Electronics for the development of a telecommunications switching network; and $118 million by E.I. du Pont de Nemours for the building of a synthetic-fiber plant...
...black leaders in America. Martin Luther King graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, as did Georgia State Senator Julian Bond. Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and Novelist Toni Morrison graduated from Howard University, where ex-National Urban League President Vernon Jordan got his law degree. Historian W.E.B. Du Bois received a B.A. from Fisk University in Nashville...
...beginning to fade. Inaugurating France's new, high-speed train last week (see SCIENCE), he was greeted with polite applause but no great enthusiasm. Hecklers bearing placards at stations along the way included members of the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail, a union that enjoys close links to the Socialist Party. Their message: workers still expect Mitterrand to deliver on his promise of lowering unemployment and reducing the work week to 35 hours. The leftist press too has begun to be concerned that Mitterrand's ideological commitments may be getting...