Word: returns
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...power by buying more oil and gas from nations outside the cartel, especially those in the Americas. The need is urgent to create a North American Common Market. Canada has vast supplies of natural gas; the U.S. could negotiate to provide guaranteed markets and much needed capital in return for a steady supply of gas. Mexico is proud and sensitive about its patrimony of oil and gas, but the U.S. could acquire more of it by admitting more Mexican immigrants, giving trade preferences to Mexican exports, exchanging American agricultural technology to help feed one of the world's fastest...
...Leon Jaworski has reported that Connally suggested to Haig's predecessor, H.R. Haldeman, that John Mitchell should be persuaded to accept all the blame for Watergate. Republican enemies of Connally point to a tape played during his 1975 trial on charges of accepting money from milk producers in return for higher price supports. Though hard to decipher, it seemed to record Connally and Nixon discussing a large contribution from oilmen. But the tape was virtually unintelligible and little was made of it at the time. Connally has denied that the conversation had anything to do with...
...normal behavior for a bright young metallurgist who wanted to get ahead. After 17 days at the plant, however, Khan was politely but firmly told to leave Almelo, and went back to work in his Amsterdam laboratory. Shortly afterward, he told friends that he had been asked to return to his native Pakistan and serve in the Economic Affairs Ministry. Sadly, he bade them goodbye, his sojourn in Holland completed...
...John Akii-bua, 29, was forbidden to leave the country again to participate in international meets. When the ban was finally lifted last summer in a typically perverse Amin decision, Wife Joyce and Akii-bua's three children were forced to remain in Kampala as hostages against his return. When Amin finally fell, the family escaped to West Germany. In friendlier political climes, Akii-bua is preparing for the '80 Moscow Olympics, in which he will compete again for Uganda. So happy was one of the world's greatest trackmen to be free of politics that...
...TIME's 4.25 million.) Yet newsstand sales have slumped lately, and Graham is said to have been concerned that Kosner was making Newsweek too frivolous with his fondness for cover stories on pop culture and entertainment subjects. The week after Pope John Paul II made his historic return to Poland, for example, the magazine's cover featured Hollywood horror movies. Says Ron Travisano, president of Delia Femina, Travisano and Partners, a leading New York advertising agency: "Newsweek is not so 'hot' any more...