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Egypt is understandably anxious to avoid finding itself totally isolated as a peacemaker in the Arab world, should the talks with Israel collapse. For Brown and for Carter, to whom the Secretary will report immediately on his return to Washington, the hours of talks with Sadat offered an alarming perspective on just how volatile the Middle East might be without a peace accord...
Winding up a pleasant weekend of fishing, sunbathing and gambling, 86 passengers, including some blacks, filed aboard two four-engine Air Rhodesia Viscount turboprops for the 40-minute return flight to Salisbury. Six minutes after takeoff, the pilot of the first Viscount radioed a Mayday signal; then Flight RH-827, his plane, hit by at least one ground-to-air missile, plunged nose-first into a rocky ravine. The crash killed all 59 people on board. The second Viscount, with Defense Chief Lieut. General Peter Walls and his wife aboard, took off 15 minutes later. It immediately began to execute...
...workers to start the wells pumping soon again, even though Ayatullah Khomeini has ordered them back to work. At best, production would rise slowly to a maximum of about 3 million bbl. per day within six months. Increasing the flow to the normal 5.8 million bbl. would require the return of foreign technicians, an unlikely possibility. Yet, said Schlesinger, unless Iran begins substantial production soon, frequent shortages of gasoline will show up this summer, and the U.S. will not be able to rebuild its stocks to avoid a scarcity of heating oil next winter...
...climb has been helped by reports that South Africa, until recently a major consumer of Iranian oil, has negotiated a long-term deal to buy alternative supplies from Saudi Arabia in return for gold. Since South Africa is the world's largest gold producer and Saudi Arabia is the world's largest oil exporter, such a deal would divert much gold away from world commerce and into Saudi vaults, forcing up the price of the metal still more...
Although most of the members will leave for China a few days earlier, Horner is delaying her trip because of meetings with Radcliffe Alumnae in Philadelphia, Washington and New York. She added that she will return March 18 because of other alumnae meetings in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other West Coast cities...