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Schlesinger's running war with the Mexicans started in December, 1977 when Foreign Minister Santiago Roel and Petroleum Chief Diaz Serrano came to Washington to seek approval of an already negotiated deal between their government and U.S. pipeline companies for Mexican natural gas. The tentative agreement would have delivered 2 billion cu. ft. of gas per day to the U.S. at $2.60 per thousand cu. ft. More important, the deal would have helped speed up the development of the Mexican oil industry. But Schlesinger dumbfounded his visitors by stating that the proposal was unacceptable; the Mexican price...
Sporting pointed hats and led by ex-Provo Leader Roel van Duijn, 27, a bearded anarchist with a sense of humor, the Pixies established "people's departments" to handle a whole range of services. To protest air pollution, the Pixies' Environment Department stopped traffic by staging smiling street sit-ins -but only on Saturday afternoons when families go shopping in their cars. They introduced cartop flower boxes to beautify parking lots. Their Housing Department seized empty buildings, scrubbed them clean and opened them to some of the city's 15,000 homeless. They organized...
Theater Workshoppers will carry "Henry IV" to the Boston air waves this evening in the first roel of a three-night radio adaptation. The same cast which staged the play last fall will enact a shortened Act I and Act II over WHDH tonight at 9:35 o'clock. The remaining acts are scheduled for Thursday and Friday evenings...