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...extremis, Bech becomes a wandering minstrel for the U.S. State Department. He junkets to Venezuela, Korea, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, shamefacedly giving a speech...
...demand might be a key to reducing the threat of a crisis, Americans will still drive their cars and companies will still produce such energy intensive products as steel. In sum, we still need oil and, more generally, abundant energy. The Mideast is risky, as are Mexico, Venezuela, and Nigeria in the long-term. And domestic off-shore drilling threatens not to live up to its promise. So, do we need a crash program to develop synthetic fuels? Coal is plentiful, but is it clean enough to be the electricity of the future? Are nuclear power, fusion and fission going...
...joined TIME'S Paris bureau in 1963. His most frenzied week working abroad came when he visited four countries in Africa in 48 hours ("literally by plane, Land Rover and dugout canoe") to report a late-breaking 1967 story on tribalism after Biafra's secession from Nigeria. His most draining assignment: seven months in Czechoslovakia covering the crushing of the 1968 Prague Spring by the Soviets. "We often wrote with tears in our eyes there," he remembers...
...again. Customers went elsewhere until Mexico bowed to the pressures of the marketplace. By that time, the country had lost about $1 billion hi revenue, and the drain has continued. Laments one Mexican businessman: "We thought we were going to become like Saudi Arabia. Instead, we became like Nigeria...
...ailment-are dumped in the unregulated markets of Southeast Asia. Many of these products are elaborately promoted. Clioquinol was touted on Indonesian television until the government banned all TV commercials last year. Other products, including vitamins and "tonics," are promoted as cures for malnutrition in such impoverished areas as Nigeria and Central America, although, as Silverman pointed out in an interview, "these people don't need vitamins, they need food...