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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...principal Canadian manufacturing center for textiles, garments and shoes, industries that provide 25% of Quebec jobs. With a gross provincial product of $45 billion, Quebec provides 23% of Canada's total G.N.P., second only to neighboring Ontario. If Quebec became independent tomorrow, Lévesque likes to boast, it would rank as the 23rd wealthiest nation in the world, ahead of Iran...
When students of the gray world gather, the conversation-whispered, of course -often turns to the quality of intelligence services. The CIA and KGB rank, on a scale of 1 to 4, at the top. Here, with help from intelligence operatives in the U.S. and abroad, TIME rates the other services...
...large parts of the country have not been thoroughly surveyed by oil geologists, the Chinese themselves probably have only imprecise figures. The lowest foreign estimate of Chinese reserves, a 1977 guess by the American Petroleum Institute, puts them at 20 billion bbl.; if those reserves were proven, China would rank ninth in the world. The CIA has a far higher estimate: 39 billion bbl. below dry land and perhaps that much offshore-a grand total that would place China neck and neck with the Soviet Union for second place, behind Saudi Arabia...
...tapped to lead the bureau to brighter days has an exemplary record. After two hitches in the Navy (top rank: lieutenant) and degrees from Amherst College and Washington University School of Law, Webster entered private practice. Richard Nixon appointed him as a U.S. district court judge in 1971 and to the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1973. When Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retired in 1975, Webster was one of the first eleven people recommended to the American Bar Association as a possible replacement...
...secret as they previously would have been. The seniority system has been weakened, eliminating many of the old, autocratic committee chairmen who could block important legislation on a whim. Chairmen, who are now elected by members of the majority in each chamber, have become more responsive to the rank and file...