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...expansive sweep of civil engineering, from the pyramids of the Nile to the construction of the Panama Canal, nothing so huge, or costly, as Jubail has ever before been attempted by anyone." Says Saudi Arabian Finance Minister Mohammed Ali Abdul Khail, whose government has already spent $35 billion on Jubail and its smaller sister project Yanbu, and plans to spend upwards of $100 billion more in years to come: "We simply cannot exaggerate what is going on out here." Jubail is, in brief, a project of moon-landing proportions, one that in the very grandeur and scope of its conception...
...meanwhile, where British Ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons and Enrique Ros, Argentina's Deputy Foreign Minister, had wearily negotiated for weeks, the Security Council tried again to find a compromise. Spain and Panama introduced a resolution implicitly Unking a cease-fire with unilateral Argentine withdrawal and a vaguely defined U.N. role in the future administration of the Falklands...
...less, but their percentages may actually bring the amount to more if the sale approaches the buildup.) Technically, Holmes is only the master of all that the World Boxing Council surveys. Boxing titles flow from two Central American offices: the W.B.C. in Mexico and the World Boxing Association in Panama. However, by farsightedly knocking out W.B.A. Champion Mike Weaver before Weaver happened to win his title, Holmes eased the confusion...
...Luis Herrera Campins, a U.S. friend only a few months ago and now Argentina's most vocal supporter in South America, declared last month: "It is already clear that the country that will lose the most in this confrontation between Britain and Latin America will be the U.S." Panama President Aristides Royo has accused the U.S. of betraying its Latin neighbors by "changing hats and choosing sides when it should have remained neutral." Most U.S. experts take Latin America's anger seriously. Says Robert Leiken of Georgetown University: "This has struck a very deep nerve...
Critics also charge that Baker's pragmatism betrays a lack of deep ideological commitment. Though his voting record is generally conservative, he is not totally trusted by his party's right wing because he supported the Panama Canal treaties and civil rights legislation, and has at tempted to find a middle ground on controversial social issues like abortion...