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...celebrate this week. It is 20 years since it achieved independence from Britain and one year since it returned to civilian democratic government after more than a decade of military rule. Beyond the purely commemorative reasons for rejoicing, Nigerians can revel in their emergence as black Africa's richest and most powerful nation-and a rising economic force on the world scene. With daily shipments to the U.S. of nearly 1 million bbl. of low-sulfur "sweet" crude oil, Nigeria ranks as the U.S. 's second largest supplier of foreign petroleum (after Saudi Arabia). Nigeria's staggering...
...richest and relatively undeveloped new regions being explored is the Western Overthrust Belt, a geological formation of petroleum- and gas-bearing rock running from Canada to Mexico. Other new drilling in the mainland U.S. is under way in the Tuscaloosa Trend of Louisiana, the Permian Basin of West Texas, the Williston Basin of North and South Dakota and Montana, and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico...
...likely under Brazilian law. Though virtually anyone is free to prospect with "rudimentary" equipment, mineral rights belong to the government, and landowners receive a small royalty fee. The main consolation for the Fer-reiras was that they staked claims on what turned out to be the richest part of the site...
...likely under Brazilian law. Though virtually anyone is free to prospect with "rudimentary" equipment, mineral rights belong to the government, and landowners receive a small royalty fee. The main consolation for the Ferreiras was that they staked claims on what turned out to be the richest part of the site...
...mile stretch of lakefront along Chicago's suburban North Shore is one of the richest areas in the nation, with family income of $60,000 a median. Teen-agers there grow up in well-manicured neighborhoods, attend first-rate colleges and flaunt the trappings of affluence; many drive around in Mercedes. Yet for such youths, there is trouble in paradise. Among local therapists, the area is known as "the suicide belt." In a 17-month period ending last summer, 28 teen-agers took their own lives. Eighteen died by gunshot, eight by hanging and two by lying down...