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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting for the New Man | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Long Till Equality? | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jubail Superproject | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Pardon El Chichon's Dust | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

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