Word: gulf
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Israel has constructed a series of settlements, military installations and other major projects that form an arcing line from the Rafah salient on the Mediterranean to El Tur on the Gulf of Suez. The line (see map) looks suspiciously like a national boundary...
...Nigeria, a country he had visited twice before, Young seemed to gain assurance. He was received with surprising warmth by General Obasanjo, who had refused to meet with Henry Kissinger last year, but promised Young his support "in his great task of bridging the wide gulf between the U.S. and Africa." Explaining the Nigerians' warmth toward him, Young said with a grin: "Nigeria is arrogant and Kissinger is arrogant, and so there was a clash. I may be just as arrogant, but I can control it better." Later he added, "They're anxious for a new start...
...this feeling, several Government investigations were called last week to determine to what extent, if any, producers are deliberately withholding gas from the market. Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus sent a six-man team of investigators to Metairie, La., to examine the records of four offshore fields in the Gulf of Mexico that have reported sharp production declines. Says Andrus: "If it appears that gas has been withheld, then we will move into a larger investigation." A House commerce subcommittee headed by California Democrat John E. Moss announced it would open hearings into possible gas withholding in a week...
...Turner Joy and the USS Maddox, the two U.S. destroyers which invaded North Vietnamese waters in the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964, were on NSA assignment...
...principal economic exploitation of South Korea is Japanese, but there are also multiple links with American business. Bob Dorsey, the former Chairman of the Board of the Gulf Oil Company testified to a Congressional committee that Gulf contributed $4 million to two of Park's presidential campaigns. Park Tong Sun, who seems to have principally directed the bribing and subversion of American Government officials in Washington, claimed recently that Gulf was paying him $1 million a month; Gulf's immediate response was that it could not have been that much. Park's family distributes Gulf oil products and runs...