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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hadi Abdul Taher, Saudi Arabian Minister of State and governor of the Petroleum and Minerals Agency (PETROMIN), told an audience of about 75 in Science Center C that unless both oil producers and consumers take a "moderate approach to the price question," the result may be "really important imbalances...interruptions of continuity of supply on a high level" sometime in the next 10 to 15 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oil Minister Urges Slow Price Climb | 10/11/1978 | See Source »

...symbols were the lunchpail and bulldozer. But after two years in office, it became painfully obvious to many Finch supporters that despite the rhetoric, Finch mainly worried about the betterment of Finch. Mississippi newspapers revealed time and time again that Finch's number one priority as governor was to get his old buddies on the state payroll where they would have ample time to help their boss fulfill his political ambitions...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Ole Miss Campus Politics | 10/11/1978 | See Source »

Evers is particularly inscrutable. One of the first blacks elected mayor of a Mississippi town since the Reconstruction, and a strong candidate for governor in 1971, Evers has an outside chance of rattling Mississippi politics to the bone by becoming the first black to be elected to a powerful position in the state. Unfortunately, the price he has been forced to pay is high. Evers, in an attempt to attract whites, has apparently decided to take a more conservative line than any other candidate. His campaign speeches before white groups make him sound more like a rich Delta plantation progeny...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Ole Miss Campus Politics | 10/11/1978 | See Source »

...SOUTH CAROLINA Charles "Pug" Ravenel '61 is posing the most serious threat to Thurmond in years. A native Charlestonian, Ravenel went from quarterbacking the Harvard football team to the Harvard Business School and on to Wall Street before returning home to run for governor. He won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1974 through an impressive media campaign that included an attack on the State Senate as a "den of thieves." But the State Supreme Court, in a highly questionable interpretation of the state residency requirement, took him off the ballot because he had not lived in South Carolina...

Author: By Cliff Sloan, | Title: Ruse of the Right | 10/10/1978 | See Source »

What mattered most was the departure of George Wallace, who could not legally succeed himself as Governor and decided not to run for the Senate. With his control removed from state politics after the mesmerizing years, the rules had suddenly changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Alabama Upsets | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

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