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...barely better than the 9.5% earned by chemical companies. Over the past seven years, according to Data Resources Inc., a firm of economic analysts, domestic oil companies have averaged slightly less than a 9.4% return on investment, about on a par with the nation's 600 largest manufacturing firms...
...P.L.O. is an example of Arab democracy gone wild. Its largest member organization, Arafat's Al Fatah, is frequently at odds with George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, whose Marxist cadre seeks to overthrow not only Israel but also conservative Arab governments like Saudi Arabia-Arafat's bankroller. Both Fatah and Habash's group have had bitter quarrels with four smaller but vociferous members of the P.L.O.-the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Popular Front-General Command (now split into pro-Iraq-Libya and pro-Syria factions...
...reached the West. Some 35,000 miners from the Jiul River basin, which provides 70% of the country's coal supply, went on strike in early August to protest food shortages, unpaid overtime work and a reduction of pension and sickness benefits. The walkout was by far the largest in Rumania since the Communist takeover...
Long before then, the U.M.W. itself would be in trouble. Wildcatting has all but destroyed the union's pension and benefit funds, which get their money from employers on the basis of man-hours worked and tons mined. One of the largest, which provides $20 million monthly in pension checks to 81,500 miners, has used up its cash reserves entirely and now survives month-to-month on a combination of bank loans and new payments from the mine operators. If the whole union walked out, the fund would not be able to meet its obligations, and the other...
When Percy P. Qoboza was a Nieman fellow here two years ago, he justified his newspaper's emphasis on sensational rather than political news by saying his responsibility as an editor was to keep the largest black paper in South Africa from being closed down...