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...named chief of station in Gabon, in West Africa. Even today, in the male-dominated CIA, there are relatively few women station chiefs, and her appointment more than a decade ago was an unusual recognition of her talents. Never mind that Gabon had not even had a station chief until three years before or that Vertefeuille ran a one-woman station, in charge only of herself, an assistant and a code clerk. The point...
ABIDJAN: Homeward Bound Fearing racial violence in Gabon, migrant workers are fleeing by ship to this Ivory Coast port. Beset by recession and unemployment, Gabon in December cracked down on its 75,000 foreign workers by introducing a nationality-based fee scale for work permits. The fees range from $1,520 for Mauritanians and $1,160 for Malians down to $95 for French or U.S. nationals. Foreigners must pay up or leave by Feb. 15. With petitions signed by thousands of unemployed Gabonese who threaten to ``kill and burn'' illegal immigrants, western and central Africans are spending their savings...
...north of the Ndoki, and it was hard for me to imagine that Africa might still contain forests so remote that the animals had never learned to fear mankind. Western lowland gorillas, hunted for centuries, are among the shyest, least-known animals on earth, and scientists in Gabon and the Central African Republic have invested years trying to gain trust so they could study the animals at close quarters...
...Phillips are putting more money into overseas exploration than they are investing at home. "You have to go where you can find the reserves and make a profit," explains Wayne Allen, president of Phillips, which has hiked foreign spending 15% since 1989 to bankroll drilling in such places as Gabon, New Guinea and Italy. All told, according to a Salomon Brothers survey, U.S. oil companies are increasing foreign investment nearly 10%. At the same time, the 21 largest firms are cutting exploration spending in this country...
...foods. Conoco decided to use double-hulled tankers in an effort to reduce the risk of oil spills, and it has made a commitment to lessen the impact of its exploration operations on rain forests and other sensitive ecosystems. The Houston-based oil company made the happy discovery in Gabon that shrinking the size of drilling areas and roads to minimize damage to forests saved money as well as trees...