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...following year he captured the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Allen Ellender. A racial moderate, Johnston is an exceptionally effective television candidate. He has co-sponsored an extension of national wage-price controls and, for his oil-rich home state, has proposed building a port for supertankers...
...nation of ample natural resources," says Mohammed Imadi, the American-educated Economy Minister. "We have the land, oil, phosphates, iron ore, the right geographical location and a hardworking people." A magnificent sweep of Mediterranean coast is waiting to be developed; at the moment, Latakia is the only port city of any size. But there are developing ports at Banias and Tartous. In the interior, the Orontes River, which flows perversely to the north while all the others in the Fertile Crescent flow south, waters a lush plain where the wheat fields are as endless as those in Kansas or Nebraska...
Syria also profits from its geographic position at the "waist" of the Middle East, between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. Lebanese and Kuwaiti trucks, among others, carry goods from the port of Beirut through Syria to merchants in the gulf sheikdoms. In addition to its own growing oil revenues, Syria gets an estimated $125 million in fees from the oil pipeline from Iraq to Banias and the Tapline from Saudi Arabia to the Lebanese port of Sidon...
...community leaders charged Maguire with having altered a report under pressure from another client, the Massachusetts Port Authority...
...year, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's staff has investigated whether ITT Corp.'s pledge of financial sup port for the 1972 Republican National Convention influenced a controversial antitrust settlement in the company's favor. Last week, in a letter to a Congressman who had complained that the ITT probe appeared dormant, Jaworski disclosed that his staff had uncovered no evidence of any criminal conduct by ITT executives in the case...