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...from Rio, leveled charges of graft against the presidents of Brazil's Senate and Chamber of Deputies and the governor of prosperous Sao Paulo state. The man who drew the most fire was Mauro Borges, 44, governor of the central farmland state of Goias. He was charged with outright subversion. According to the military, Borges maintained a close link with top Brazilian Communists and has been receiving "bulky" sums of money from Cuba and other Iron Curtain countries. The soldiers demanded his ouster...
...content with that (plus some $221 million of outright French aid), Ben Bella is demanding half ownership of the oil industry, which now gives him 50% of the profits, so that he can industrialize poverty-stricken Algeria. French negotiators seem willing to give in to demands for joint management of new oil ventures, but want to hold out for the profitable status quo on existing operations. So far, Ben Bella has shied away from talk of outright nationalization, but Algerian oil workers are ominously pressuring producers for control over hiring, firing and promotions...
Professor Constable's proposal which would retain Gen Ed courses under a distribution requirement has attracted even more support to this position. One of the most telling objections to an outright distribution system has always been that the outstanding Gen Ed courses now in existence could not find a home in a department...
...this amounts to a vast and dangerous oversimplification. To be sure, De Gaulle's blackball of Britain's proposed entry into the Common Market, his insistence upon developing his own nuclear force, his outright opposition to the U.S. plan for a multilateral nuclear force, his vision of a unified continental Europe dominated by France, all have been major irritants within the NATO alliance. Yet the full weight of NATO's problems cannot be justly heaped upon the unbending shoulders of De Gaulle...
Cost & Controversy. The pipeline companies, which mostly have their headquarters in oil-rich Houston or Tulsa, are essentially transportation companies that shy from outright owner ship of production facilities. The 92 major oil pipeline companies that move 75% of all U.S. crude oil shipments and 45% of all finished products - ranging from jet fuels to tractor fuels - are owned either by individual oil companies or by consortiums. Service Pipe Line Co., "the largest (14,000 miles of pipe), is a Standard Oil of Indiana subsidiary, and runner-up Humble Pipe Line Co. (11,700 miles) does two-thirds...