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...Proven reserves: around 10 billion...
...nothing compared to the bitterness of the Eritreans, who once received help from both the Soviets and the Cubans. Says an E.L.F. officer who was trained in Cuba: "All my feelings about Cuba have changed. I hate them, and that goes for the Russians too. The Arabs have proven themselves to be our brothers. That's why we are a democratic revolution, and not a Communist...
...Saudis have more oil than even the present figures on proven reserves (110 billion bbl.) indicate. Last year Saudi Arabia passed the U.S. to become the world's second largest oil producer, and this year it may overtake the Soviet Union to become No. 1. Even so, as the country's suave Oil Minister, Ahmed Zaki Yamani, told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn, "In the past year we discovered more oil than we produced. In the future, we will double our reserves." At present the country is producing about 9 million bbl. a day, but Frank Jungers, chairman...
...dependence on foreign oil by 14%-assuming all the oil is used in the U.S.-and reduce the nation's bill for imported crude by $6 billion in 1978. Currently, the U.S. uses 17.2 million bbl. daily, of which slightly more than half is imported. The proven reserves of Prudhoe Bay are 9.6 billion bbl., enough to keep the pipeline busy for 20 years. The line will not be formally dedicated until Oct. 8, when it will be in full operation and a number of tankers will have been loaded...
...profusion of all too recognizable cliches may elicit a grimace or two during a screening of Star Wars, but there's no denying that the film ultimately wins you over. Lucas clearly does not suffer from the kind of overweening ambition in artistic vision that has proven the downfall of so many of his young contemporaries in American cinema. His mission is to entertain, and if such an end involves resorting to a few old standards of dialogue and theme, then so be it. Star Wars will neither pose nor answer any metaphysical questions that will keep the moviegoer scratching...