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...other news related to the Kennedy Library, Gerald Gillerman, attorney for the task force, said yesterday the GSA will send a representative to a Tuesday night meeting with Cambridge groups to investigate allegations that Maguire altered a report under pressure from its client, the Massachusetts Port Authority. The GSA failed to appear Monday at a similar meeting called by the task force...
...shadow of nationalization. The company is indeed a plum - the world's biggest oil producer sitting atop the world's largest reserves. Aramco's average well yields 12,000 bbl. per day, as compared with the average U.S. well's 18 bbl. Its refinery and port complex at Ras Tanura on the Persian Gulf can turn out more product (600,000 bbl. per day), store more oil and load more supertankers than any other facility on the globe...
...civic leaders were especially concerned about a report which alleged that under pressure from its client, the Massachusetts Port Authority, Maguire had reversed its conclusions on the suitability of an East Boston site for a new shipping facility...
...company's moves have to be explained to a wary public. Jamieson complains that he is often approached by people asking about rumors of tankers riding at anchor offshore, waiting for prices to go up before unloading. Says Jamieson: "We took the trouble of going to the port captain of New York Harbor and asking if he could give us the facts. He said that the ships lined up offshore were container ships, not tankers, and that the problem arose because of bad weather...
...also the oil money flowing into the Arab world in rapidly increasing amounts. Foreign capital is being enticed by such moves as Sadat's recent decision to sign a World Bank agreement that protects foreign investors against losses from nationalization. Plans have been drawn up to turn Port Said into a free-trade zone and make it "the Hong Kong of the West." Cairenes, accustomed to seeing photographs of their President posing with visiting Arab and Soviet politicians, were astonished last week to see him greeting Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller, in Cairo to execute an $80 million...