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...raise further an already greatly inflated price. Still, the moderate size of the increase represents a huge victory for OPEC'S price doves, led in Vienna by Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani. He was joined, surprisingly, by the delegation from Algeria, previously a hard-liner on oil prices. On the hawk side, a bloc including Libya and Iraq lined up behind Iran's Interior Minister Jamshid Amuzegar to demand initially a boost of 20% or more. Personally, no love is lost between Amuzegar and Yamani, and the arguments became sulfurous. At one point, Yamani...
Mainly preoccupied with domestic matters, Bentsen has demonstrated no particular aptitude for foreign affairs. Generally, he goes along with his fellow Democrats' attacks on détente and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Though a hard-liner on defense, Bentsen often raps the Pentagon for sloppy analysis and wasteful spending, asking: "Can this country afford a $17 billion-a-year civilian defense payroll that is purely for support rather than combat purposes...
After Poseidon Adventure, I fear cruising on an ocean liner. After Airport and its followup, I cringe at the thought of flight. Towering Inferno gives me indigestion before I arrive for dinner at my favorite restaurant on the 62nd floor of the U.S. Steel Building. Jaws [June 23] now forces me to abandon my vacation spot on Cape Hatteras in favor of the safety of the Allegheny River. Ah, the brilliance of Hollywood! In one short year it has transformed Americans into cowering paranoids whose only security is found in the tenth row of a darkened cinema...
...hairy fist), and watching the flying fish skitter like fusiform silver bugs from the indigo waves, you slip into the most delectable and mindless of rhythms. That can be a mistake, even for real captains: one bright afternoon in 1971, the Antilles, a 20,000-ton French cruise liner, rammed a reef between the islands of Mustique and Carriacou at full steam, and its hulk still lies in the sun as a sobering memento mori...
...approach was a welcome change of pace from non establishment criticism of Dylan's works which has been uniformly trite and unhelpful Jon Landau of Rolling Stone refers to the "multileveledness" of Mr. Lambontine Man," which sounds fairly impressive but doesn't mean much Similarly Pen Hamill on his liner notes to Hlood on the bracks which Dylan wisely decided to funk on the next shipment of the album-makes mysterious allusions to the Oran of Camus and using a favorite critical catch all phrase phrase, praises the "spaces" in Dylan's songs which "allow us to create with...