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...Rome firms, Comtec and Ircom, jointly signed to build a 20-story skyscraper in Uganda's capital of Kampala. A group of three other Ro man companies, including a firm called Vianini, in which the Vatican is the largest shareholder, recently won a $40 million order from the Libyan govern ment to broaden 1,483 miles of coastal highway and erect 46 bridges...
...large drilling rig from the British coast into the North Sea, where it will explore one of the world's richest new oil and gas regions. In Bavaria, where it is making its first big move into petrochemicals, it is starting to build a plant that will use Libyan crude to manufacture acetylene and ethylene. In the U.S., the company is about to move beyond its traditional Midwestern marketing area to invade the Southeast with new gas stations...
...Schliemann un covered the ruins of Agamemnon's court in Greece, Germans have been among the most relentless of antiquarians. It seemed only natural, therefore, for some adventurous German technicians working at Gamal Abdel Nasser's jet airplane factory outside Cairo to decide to drive 300 miles across the Libyan Desert to the remote Siwa Oasis, site of Roman temple ruins and the classical oracle of Jupiter Ammon, consulted by Alexander the Great. It was to be a week-long vacation. The group included Gunther Wanderscheck, Reinhold Rimm, and Hans Hauser, together with Cairo Salesman Klaus...
...armed forces for ten years before it established headquarters in Rome in late 1963 and shifted its emphasis to needs of emerging nations. The shift has paid off. McGaughy is working on the plan and initial construction of a new city of 30,000 to replace the Libyan town of Barce, destroyed in a 1963 earthquake. These firms, which constitute a sort of architectural peace corps, stress speed, diplomacy, language fluency and building techniques that can easily be learned by local unskilled labor. Aware that traditional European architectural styles evoke unpleasant memories...
...fact, account for a quarter of the world's petroleum output. But as the sheiks grab bigger and bigger slices of oil revenues, producers have been busy developing alternative resources closer to the oil-hungry European market. The big gest of these now lie in the Algerian and Libyan Sahara, where drilling rigs, tank farms and smoke-plumed refiner ies give a modern industrial look to the ancient face of the desert...