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...independence. A discovery of natural gas and oil in Kurdish territory seems a likely source of financing for the Kurds, but when they try to buy arms with the money officially paid for exploitation rights, the funds disappear into Europe's banking system. A Scottish paleontologist named MacGregor tries to help, and his investigation takes him to Paris at the time of the 1968 student rebellion. Textures are well observed: the roughness of Kurdish mountain men, the slithery politesse of European moneymen. There is a convincing smell of burnt insulation; it is clear that neither the French students...
...nuclear spies. Historian Allen Weinstein of Smith College, who has tried in vain for three years to open up the FBI files on the Rosenberg and Alger Hiss cases, complains: "The amendments haven't made any change as far as I can tell." Historian James MacGregor Burns agrees. After failing for two years to force the State Department to release thousands of pages of material on the diplomatic history of the 1950s and 1960s, he warns: "We should be learning things from U.S. interventions in Korea, Lebanon and Viet Nam and we aren't." Burns believes that...
...pleading took up much time at the summit itself. Charles Luce, chairman of Consolidated Edison of New York, one of the nation's largest power companies, asked the Government to take some action to relieve the "desperate" credit crunch in the utilities industry. A coal company executive, Ian MacGregor of Amax, Inc. urged that the U.S. ease the energy crunch by doubling its use of - what else? - coal...
...MacGregor and Mitchell. MacGregor and Mitchell, that...
...Thornton F. Bradshaw, president of Atlantic Richfield Co.; Ian MacGregor, chairman of American Metal Climax, Inc.; John W. Simpson, president of Westinghouse Electric's Power Systems Co.; Alfred J. Eggers Jr., assistant director for research applications of the National Science Foundation; and Lee C. White, chairman, Energy Policy Task Force, Consumer Federation of America...