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However, PepsiCo is still shipping concentrate to its Iranian bottlers, and Continental Telephone is proceeding with building a phone cable network for Tehran. One of the largest projects had been the joint venture between California's Fluor Corp. and West Germany's Thyssen to build a $750 million, 200,000 bbl.-a-day oil refinery at Isfahan for the National Iranian Oil Co. The refinery has been a high-priority item for the Iranian government, which fears shortages of kerosene and diesel fuel during the winter. Last week, when the refinery was a month away from partial operation...
...many physical assets for either the U.S. or Iran to expropriate. Many U.S. businessmen preferred to export products to Iran or to provide services in exchange for cash on the barrelhead. The Commerce Department estimates that U.S. real estate and other assets in Iran amount to only about $300 million. U.S. businessmen can file claims against the Tehran government's frozen $6 billion to compensate for the assets they stand to lose in Iran...
...battle during the months that he delayed making his formal announcement. He has kept on top of current events, and made sure his name has stayed familiar by writing a column of commentary for 105 newspapers and broadcast messages for 270 radio stations. He has traveled half a million miles since last March as a dinner speaker, charging up to $10,000 for each appearance and raising some $3 million for local Republican candidates. In recent months he has spent several hours a week being briefed intensively on both foreign and domestic issues by Martin Anderson, a former White House...
Reagan's chief problem at this point is his slow start on fund raising for himself. Texan John Connally has already netted about $6.6 million, nearly twice as much as Reagan. Still Reagan's moneymen have a handy list of some 400,000 contributors from 1976 and expect to catch up fast...
With a fortune of well over $1 million, Ronald and Nancy Reagan live comfortably in an elegantly furnished, five-bedroom ranch-style house in Pacific Palisades. In the living room, the grand piano is covered with mementos of show business days, photographs of Old Friends Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope and Edgar Bergen. On the end tables are small glass dishes filled with the jelly beans that became his trademark as Governor. They are intended for guests. To keep down his weight, he rarely eats them now. Reagan is dressed casually, in slacks, a blue V-neck sweater and velvet slippers...