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...million tons is anticipated this year-comes not only from Iran but from Saudi Arabia and some other Arab states on the Persian Gulf as well. Arab oil is not carried by Israeli-flag ships, of course, but by vessels that are registered in third countries, like the Liberian-flag Coral Sea. Sailing orders are often doctored so that there is no record of some ships' ever carrying oil to Eilat at all. Arab leaders have tried not to think about the matter for practical reasons: Saudi Arabia and Kuwait help support Egypt and Jordan with annual subsidies...
...typical of the DAS' work is the Liberian episode? If any answer can be extracted from two of its longest-standing projects-Pakistan and Indonesia-it is that despite what may have once been worthwhile motives and intentions, the DAS teams in those countries wound up as apologists for governments in which they had little significant influence for the good...
...Barnett destroy a protest movement by leading a "floatin" in front of a Liberian freighter carrying grain for Royalists in Yemen? Impossible. Will Barnett make a mockery of the Camp aesthetic and win the ice-cold heart of Rosalie by memorizing all the shows of the Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour! Improbable. Might Barnett expiate 400 years of white guilt by joining "a group of young white businessmen who had gathered together to back a Negro clothes designer and a Harlem dress store in a new line of maternity clothes called 'Mother Jumpers'?" Unconscionable. Could Barnett win Rosalie...
...they are the biggest spenders in the world's shipyards. More than 200 vessels, including 43 supertankers, are on order or being built for Greek owners. The Greeks set up shop wherever they can do business, in London, Manhattan, Lausanne or Beirut. They fly the most convenient flag -Liberian, Panamanian, Cypriot-but they remain Greek wherever they go. Their enterprise has been a major force in lifting the postwar economies of shipbuilding nations. In British shipyards alone, the Greeks now account for 25% of all orders...
...Afro look" is the specialty of Yahne Sangare, who comes by it naturally: she is the daughter of the Liberian ambassador to Paris. By any modeling standards, Haitian-born Jany Tomba was an instant success; she started work only last January, has since posed for Simplicity Patterns, the J. C. Penney catalogue and a Seventeen...