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Hufstedler promises there will be no single spokesman for the interest of higher education--her own experience in the field, aside from passing work on law school curriculum, was limited to serving as a trustee for Occidental College and the California Institute of Technology--but says her efforts will be...
In an apparent effort to extricate itself from the international hot seat, the Kremlin launched a diplomatic campaign that contained hints of compromise. President Leonid Brezhnev, in a policy speech before a Kremlin political gathering, said Soviet troops could be withdrawn from Afghanistan if the U.S. and other offending countries...
Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev is "in wonderful condition. He seemed in full of of himself, with a twinkle in his eye, a good sense of humor, but very forceful and positive." That is the report of Armand Hammer, the New York City-born, Russian-speaking chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp...
A second, more radical method involves cooking the shale underground. Occidental, which has pioneered this process, plans to dig at least 2,000 chambers connected by tunnels under a 5,000-acre shale tract leased from the Government. The chambers, each about the size of a football field and 250...
Whatever extraction method is used, the investment will be enormous. Union's proposed 9,000-bbl.-a-day plant would cost $130 million; Occidental's 50,000-bbl.-a-day operation carries a $1 billion price tag. Colony's process, because of its size and capital investment...