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...Shortly after taking office, he promised to unveil a comprehensive national energy program by April 20. As that date nears, the President is huddling with aides and scribbling pithy comments in the margins of position papers. For the past two weeks, he has been summoning groups of union leaders, oilmen, builders and other constituencies that are likely to be affected to a series of 21 White House miniconferences on energy. For the last, at week's end, 19 ordinary citizens, chosen at random from around the country-including two students, a housewife and a cattle rancher-huddled...
...dust-bowl town of Pampa, Texas, where Woody is earning just enough money as a sign painter and square dance fiddler to keep his family from starving to death. Pampa is an oilboom town gone bust, a grim, Depressionera morning-after the gala twenties, when the oilmen and farmers came in droves. Now the money and water are gone, the land parched and worthless. All that's left is the dust--huge, billowing black clouds of destruction and death rumbling across the prairie. Production designer Michael Haller's re-creation of a Pampa dust-storm stunningly conveys the awesome power...
...fired by Pertamina last year after it ran up debts and losses of perhaps $10 billion, he remains one of the richest men in Indonesia. His restaurant partners have not been as lucky. They still own stock in the Ramayana, but the shares have never paid dividends-and oilmen get no discounts on their rijsttafel...
...Saudis and the Emirates will move up from 5% to 10%. A minority view is that the eleven will be forced to cut their prices by such devices as discounts for crude with a high sulphur content, and the eventual increase will settle somewhere between 5% and 10%. Oilmen see only an outside chance of a price war between the Saudis and their OPEC colleagues-but that chance is strong enough to make the battle of the barrels over the next months a suspenseful struggle...
...Aeroflot? It can hardly be judged by the standards of a Western airline. The state-owned enterprise is the main provider of civilian air transport in the U.S.S.R. It ferries food supplies to oilmen on offshore rigs, sprays crops in the Ukraine, and keeps an eye on volcanoes on the Kamchatka peninsula. Even in its conventional passenger service, Aeroflot, with airports in 3,500 Soviet cities and towns and links to 70 foreign countries, from Peru to Benin, operates on a scale no other line can match. It carries more than twice as many passengers as United Air Lines...