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...then treated with a chemical concocted by RJB Founder Richard J. Briggs that is the key to the whole enterprise: it permits the material to be shipped without the buildup of dangerous methane gas. Barges and trucks bearing the finished product will soon be on their way to the port of Lake Charles, La., and in late January the first shipload will depart for Dubai. On arrival, the manure will be piped inland and sprayed together with grain seed upon barren ground. For six years the grain will be plowed under to build soil that should eventually bear food crops...
...dramatic as the clearing of the canal has been the restoration of the main cities that line it. Since the 1967 war, Port Said, Ismailia and Suez had been part of the Arab-Israeli battleground, and most residents had fled for safety to such cities as Cairo and Alexandria. After the Israeli pullback from Suez last March, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat gave priority to a $7.2 billion renovation plan for the Canal Zone -in part to create a visible symbol of Egypt's desire for peace...
Since then, some 275,000 people have returned to the canal's northern terminus at Port Said and 280,000 to Ismailia. Suez, which was 80% destroyed during the October war, will not be ready for full repatriation of its 264,000 residents for another year. Even so, the population has swelled from 8,000 to more than 100,000 since June...
...foundation of the new plan is a Saudi Arabian government take of $10.12 on the average barrel of Arabi an light crude shipped out of the port of Ras Tanura; market prices and government revenues on other grades from other countries will be keyed to that figure. Buyers of oil from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates will pay no more than now; those countries, in effect, went up to the new prices in November. But buyers of crude from the other ten OPEC nations, including Iran, Kuwait and Venezuela, will pay to the governments of those nations...
Divorced. Alan Jay Lerner, 56, Broadway lyricist-laureate (My Fair Lady, Camelot); By Karen Gundersen Lerner, 39, former Newsweek reporter who met him during a 1965 interview; after eight years of marriage, two years of separation, no children; in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Gundersen was Lerner's fifth wife...