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Iraq has searched for peaceful ways to increase its oil exports. Saudi Arabia tried to persuade Syrian President Hafez Assad to reopen the pipeline to the Mediterranean, but to no avail. Baghdad struck an agreement in principle with the Saudis to move oil across the kingdom to the Red Sea port of Yanbu. A completely new pipeline, however, would take at least four years to build. Meanwhile, the Iraqis are trying to rebuild their facilities...
...week's end the Government announced that the high bidder was Dallas' Republic Bank (deposits: $11.9 billion). Republic assumed the bank's estimated 76,400 accounts and planned to reopen its doors this week; the FDIC will collect First National's bad loans. The passing of the institution into the hands of out-of-towners left some Midland residents gloomy. Said Mayor Thane Akins: "I feel like hanging a black wreath on my door." The merger was one of the largest commercial bank failures in U.S. history, based on the institution's deposits...
Wordsworth, which has been on Brattle St for seven years, will reopen today. The store will sell partially damaged books at a discount after its losses have been totaled...
...form of sex discrimination means that Harvard has a responsibility, under federal law, to provide an effective and fair policy and procedure to prohibit and combat sexual harassment. We do not believe that the present policy and procedure meet these criteria. We therefore call on the Faculty Council to reopen its discussion of the adequacy of Harvard's present provisions...
...Sept. 24, Continental Air Lines Chairman Frank Lorenzo, 43, attempted to reduce wage costs by temporarily going out of business. Lorenzo's plan was to close down the ninth largest U.S. airline and reopen a smaller carrier with lower labor costs, along the lines of the newcomers. Lorenzo claimed that Continental had been unable to win enough voluntary wage concessions from its unions...