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...Dutch/Shell, as well as other foreign firms-key ingredients in Cap Perez's plan to make his country an economic powerhouse. Nor were the full implications of the Owens-Illinois case clear. Some Venezuelan businessmen complained that the expropriation was a "terrible overreaction" and worried that it might frighten off foreign investors. U.S. State Department officials, while expressing "concern" about the case, felt that Owens-Illinois had simply "gambled and lost" in a calculated risk that the Perez government would go easy on it. Company executives convened in Caracas to try to get the government to reconsider...
...Hueso, the bone) will probably appoint a civilian Economy Minister who favors business and a Foreign Minister who supports strong ties with the U.S. For the moment, his main concern seems to be to avoid the kind of Chilean-style repression that might anger world opinion and frighten away foreign investors. Isabel herself may be allowed to fly into exile, probably to Spain; if she does stand trial, it is likely to be for a relatively minor offense, such as misuse of public funds...
Gerald Ford is playing the jolly Santa Claus, like any other incumbent who wishes to stay in office for some more presidential Christmases. As shrewdly and crudely as Lyndon Johnson or Richard Nixon ever did, he is doling out patronage and pork to goad, frighten and lead Republicans to support...
...amendment does not spell out what "sources and methods" might include, does not require that the leaked information actually be harmful to the nation's security, and does not even say that a leak must be deliberate to bring prosecution. "It's designed to kill our sources, frighten them away," complains Nicholas Horrock, who covers national intelligence agencies for the New York Times. Horrock reports that one intelligence source has already called him to say that "he was getting uncomfortable" because of the Ford proposals. Adds Washington Star Reporter Norman Kempster: "It will take an act of extreme...
Though Joan Samson's first novel owes its resonance to Shirley Jackson's American-gothic short story The Lottery, the book tends to provoke rather than frighten. The author's poetic imagery highlights the New England scene and characters: "Beneath the high wind, a tongue of water rang against the scoured stones like the wooden clapper in a bell, warning that they were slippery." The Auctioneer becomes less a tale of suspense than a parable of politics. The open questions it poses are as old as society itself: What is the nature of power? What makes people...