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Iraqi aircraft attacked Iranian forces, which clung tenaciously to Majnoon oilfield. At week's end military officials in Baghdad claimed that Iraqi forces had also destroyed four oil tankers and commercial ships near Kharg Island, the major terminal for Iran's oil exports. Along the border near Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, troops loyal to the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini massed for yet another offensive. Iraq appeared to have lost a bit of its much vaunted technological edge with the news that one of the five Super Etendard fighter-bombers it had bought from France had been...
When Mary Tyler, the assistant manager of the Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in the East Texas town of Kilgore, failed to return home, her worried 16-year-old daughter notified police. They were unable to help her. But around 9:30 the next morning, an oilfield worker in the area thought he saw something in the weeds along State Highway 323, 14 miles south of town. When he investigated, he found the bodies of Tyler, 37, another woman and three...
...police reconstructed it, all five were abducted from the restaurant following an after-hours robbery the weekend before last. The thieves apparently ordered the five to walk 120 yds. down an oilfield service road and lie face down side by side. Then they pumped bullets into their victims' backs and heads, as in a gangland execution. One of the victims, Opie Ann Hughes, 39, may have tried to flee; her body, clad in a Kentucky Fried Chicken uniform, was some 50 yds. away from the others...
Last week lawmen were searching for leads and suspects in the grisly slayings near Kilgore (pop. 11,000), an affluent town 100 miles east of Dallas. Officials were so stumped that Rusk County Sheriff Mike Strong brought in two psychics to comb the oilfield where the victims were found for any clues to the puzzle. Ballistic and autopsy reports showed that two guns had been used to fire eleven bullets into the five bodies. Some $2,000 was missing from the restaurant cash register, and jewelry, billfolds, purses and other valuables had been taken from the victims...
Even so, the U.S. continues to draw on nonrenewable fuels (petroleum, gas and coal) for 90% of its energy needs, not much below the 94% of 1973. The price and supply of oil worldwide remain very delicately balanced. Despite a frenzy of oilfield drilling set loose by oil decontrol, domestic production has actually slipped to 8.65 million bbl. daily, compared with 9.2 million in 1973. Now 30% more coal is being burned, but production of domestic natural gas declined by 18% in the decade. After six years, Washington's planned strategic petroleum reserve of 750 million bbl., which equals...