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Unemployment is rising inexorably throughout the oil patch. Louisiana's 13.2% jobless rate is the highest in the U.S. Last week 600 workers turned up at a Marathon Petroleum plant in Garyville, La., responding to the company's advertisement to fill five jobs. In Texas, where the unemployment rate has reached 8.4%, Paul Rogers six weeks ago lost his job as an oil pipe fitter. Says he: "I'm 21 years old and have 44 years of this left. What will...
...ministers of OPEC, along with delegates from five other producing countries, met late last month in Geneva in an attempt to patch together an agreement for sopping up the glut. The nine-day marathon session degenerated into what one delegate called "a state of unprecedented disarray." Even the meeting quarters seemed a mockery of the group's onetime ability to intimidate the industrial powers. Because most of the Hotel Inter-Continental was already booked, the ministers had to cram into a tiny conference room for their meeting...
Notice to all readers who are planning to run in the Boston Marathon: We'd be interested in hearing about your times. Please call The Crimson after the race, so that your finish--or valiant attempt--can be included in our Marathon coverage...
...There is the Currier House Dance Marathon and house-wide activites like gameshows. In terms of the physical plant, we have great music facilities, excellent bathrooms and good party space...
Mehmet Ali Agca was at it again. "I am Jesus Christ," bellowed the man who shot Pope John Paul II. "All the world will be destroyed." The now familiar outburst came on March 22, the final day of the marathon "Bulgarian connection" trial in Rome. The prosecution's aim: to prove that the Turkish gunman, who was convicted in 1981 of gravely wounding the Pope on May 13 of that year in St. Peter's Square, was working for Bulgarian agents and, by implication, the Soviet Union. The ten-month trial of Agca's alleged accomplices--and of Agca himself...