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That is an ambitious program indeed for a country as difficult to govern as Nigeria. Despite an oil boom that has made it the world's seventh largest oil exporter, Nigeria's economy has lately been lagging. Unemployment is high, and the effort to cut the armed forces will throw some 100,000 former soldiers on the job market just when jobs are becoming harder to get. Dealing with that problem-and catching Murtala's murderers, who remained at large last week -may well be the biggest immediate challenges to the Obasanjo regime...
...Outside the walls of the ancient fortress, huge posters dominated Red Square, proclaiming the principal theme of this year's political extravaganza: SUCh as GLORY TO THE GREAT SOVIET PEOPLE, THE BUILDERS OF COMMUNISM. More than 5,000 party delegates from every corner of the world's largest country will attend the 11-day congress. Also present will be delegates from other Communist parties (notably missing: representatives of China and Albania), who will attend in apparent recognition of Moscow as Marxism's shrine of orthodoxy and its seat of power...
Such containers amount to a $ 1.4 billion annual business in the U.S., and the accused firms account for about 70% of the industry's total volume. Included in the indictment are the nation's three largest folding-box producers: Container Corp. of America, Federal Paper Board Co. and American Can Co. Also mentioned in the indictment are unnamed, unindicted co-conspirators -undoubtedly companies that cooperated with the Justice Department's investigation. That suggests a Government belief that price fixing extended not just to 70% of box sales, but also to almost the industry's total volume...
...question is whether it can win new customers for unconventional uses. The future looks bright indeed -provided that coal can be economically turned into synthetic oil and natural gas. So far several plants have been planned, all of them aimed to produce highly marketable (because scarce) natural gas. The largest demonstration plant to be built is a $237 million facility in New Athens, Ill. Jointly owned by Union Carbide and Chemical Construction Corp. and partially financed by ERDA, it has been designed to turn 2,700 tons of high-sulfur Illinois coal into 22 million cu. ft. of "syngas...
...drastically. Secure in its working class, the PC began to approach non-proletarian sectors of Italian society, modifying the party line to become more amenable to a larger portion of the electorate. After regional elections last June, the PC found itself only two percentage points away from becoming the largest party in the country. Meanwhile the American-supported DC has matched the PC's rise with a spectacular decline of its own. Corrupt, fragmented, and stagnant, the DC is split into nine factions with separate organizations and politics, whose laders have run the party for the past 20 years...