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...years between the U.S. and its Western European allies continued to widen. At a summit meeting in Brussels, the ten-nation European Community expressed its dismay at Reagan's June order forbidding U.S. companies, their foreign subsidiaries and even foreign licensees from supplying equipment for the 3,500-mile pipeline that is to carry Soviet natural gas from Siberia to Western Europe. And the Brussels communique, toned down somewhat from a stinging initial draft, did not fully reflect the intensity of the Europeans' belief that the U.S. is waging economic war against the Soviet Union at their expense...
There are also the numbers, statistics like measured mile markers, flashing along a dawn drive toward a still distant reckoning. There were 301 women state legislators in 1969, 908 in 1981; 5,765 female elected officials in 1975,14,225 just four years later. And yet, those 908 legislators are only 12% of the members of state legislative bodies. Only 19 of the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives are women, only two of the 100 Senators...
...during the 1940s when the company worked on an oil refinery in Bahrain. From that early association, a long-lasting-and profitable-Saudi friendship flowered. In 1948 a team of Bechtel engineers mobilized an army of 5,000 local laborers to build the greater part of the 1,068-mile-long Trans-Arabian pipeline. Bechtel's swift execution of the mammoth job, as well as its skillful handling of local labor, added enormously to the firm's Middle East reputation...
...summer of 1931. Millions are unemployed. What people need is something to take their minds off the Depression. Charles C. Flanagan, a flamboyant character composed of equal parts of FT. Barnum, Texas Guinan and unadulterated chutzpah, conceives of a marathon to end all marathons, a 3,000-mile foot race that begins in the Los Angeles Coliseum and ends, months later, in New York's Central Park. To make it interesting, he offers $300,000 in prize money...
...declaring a "potential volcanic hazard"-the lowest of three possible levels of alert-the U.S.G.S. emphasizes that an eruption is not certain. But the volcano watchers note that there is geological precedent for a major blowup in the region. Mammoth Lakes lies inside a huge 10-mile by 18-mile caldera, or depression, called Long Valley. It was created 700,000 years ago by a volcanic eruption probably more powerful than any the earth has seen since...