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...targets are Oasis Oil Co., which is owned by Continental Oil, Marathon Oil, Amerada, Hess and Royal Dutch/Shell; American Overseas Petroleum Ltd., owned by Texaco and Standard of California; and Occidental Petroleum. Negotiations between Oasis and the Libyans over the 50% demand had been proceeding fitfully for months until last week. Then Gaddafi called a Tripoli press conference and produced a couple of Israeli grapefruit that he said had been confiscated by Libyan workers at a pipeline terminal run by Oasis, the largest foreign producer. He accused Oasis of allowing Israeli spies to operate in Libya disguised as oil workers...
...band, it was a joke," says his older sister Nickie. He also wrote sports and feature stories for the school paper under the ironic pseudonym Muscles McNasal - Muscles because he was so skinny, McNasal because of a misshapen nose. It seems that Vince bravely concluded a marathon run, then went home and fainted, nose first...
...talks country and plays cutthroat, so the last contest of the Las Vegas marathon is his kind of game...
Gordon played Crimson squash for three years, and was number three racquetman last year. This year he forsook squash, and instead ran in last month's Boston Marathon...
Typical of this relentless breed is Dave Sauer, 39, a refrigeration engineer from Pittsburgh. He began running four years ago to stay in shape, soon became hooked enough to enter local races. Just a year ago he started serious training for the Boston Marathon, dutifully logging ten miles each evening in a park near his home. After sending in his $2 entry fee, Sauer withdrew $300 from his "Boston Marathon fund" and flew east for a long, punishing weekend. "Runners like myself don't expect to win," he said prophetically. "We have the competitive urge, but we run against...