Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only an outlaw government would mine the harbors of a foreign nation...
...forever. Last week he formally teamed up with a people who have gone on forever, the Chinese. The 85-year-old chairman of Occidental Petroleum signed an agreement with the People's Republic for the largest Sino-U.S. deal yet: a $580 million venture to mine coal from a huge pit at Antaibao, 310 miles west of Peking...
Occidental and its American partner in the mining project, Omaha contractor Peter Kiewit Sons, will contribute about $340 million to the operation, chiefly in the form of equipment and engineering talent. China will put up another $240 million. The 30-year agreement calls for the Chinese eventually to take over management. Antaibao's 1.4 billion tons of proven reserves could make it the world's largest open-pit mine after production starts in 1987. Its high-grade coal will be sold to Pacific-basin countries, but low-quality coal will go to the domestic market...
...student of mine at one time," says the dean. "I like him a lot, and I've found it easy to talk...
...military and other support" for the CIA-backed contras, who are fighting a guerrilla war against the Sandinistas. The Administration had hurriedly declared on April 6 that it would not recognize the court's jurisdiction over the issue, which arose after revelations that the CIA had actively helped mine Nicaraguan harbors. But Washington's lawyers joined in the legal fray after the court refused to dismiss the Nicaraguan plea. Whatever else might ensue, the Nicaraguans seemed to have won an initial propaganda victory by forcing the U.S. to appear before the United NationsŸsponsored body...