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...French response was more muted. Iraq is now the largest supplier of French oil after Saudi Arabia. French sales to Baghdad surpass $400 million a year, including a recent contract for 36 Mirage F-l jets. On the ground that the three Iraqi guards who shot at the Palestinian kidnaper were diplomats, and thus immune from prosecution under the 1961 Vienna Convention, President Giscard merely ordered them home on the first available plane...
...hand. Sullivan's orchestration is delectable, especially all the elfin woodwind writing appropriate for a fairy world. And nobody has ever demonstrated more variety and skill in setting the English language to music, whether for solo or ensemble singers. The first-act finale of Iolanthe is one of the largest, richest and most ambitious he ever penned...
...deficit was still $1.6 billion, it was the best one-month total in more than a year and showed a $600 million improvement over May. To blame the dollar's dilemma on the stymied energy bill also seemed a reach. It is undoubtedly a disgrace that the world's largest industrial nation and principal importer of oil has no comprehensive program of energy development and conservation. Nevertheless even without such a program, oil imports so far this year have dropped by 13% as a result of conservation efforts and increasing domestic production from the Alaskan North Slope...
...root of these woes is inflation, while the collapsing dollar is pushing up prices even more. Not only do companies have to pay higher prices for foreign-made heavy machinery, engineering equipment and other high technology goods that have now replaced oil as the largest single category in the nation's import bill, but individual consumers are also being hurt. In the past year, the price of Volkswagen Rabbits has climbed 12.6%, and Japanese Toyotas are up 13% this year. Rising prices for imports likewise give domestic manufacturers an excuse to raise their own prices. This in turn sends more...
...nymph was bad enough. The photo of a smiling black woman swathed in chains was even worse. But the final straw was the June 8 poster of a scantily clad prostitute proffering the wares of her trade. When that picture ran on the cover of Stern, West Germany's largest illustrated weekly (close to 2 million in circulation), ten feminists demanded a court order barring the magazine from depicting women as "mere sex objects." Insulting one woman, they charged, is insulting them...