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...first FBI agent. Recalled Bates: "He was a sharp young fella and he carried a gun, which impresses any young man." So he joined up too. After assignments in Newark and Washington, Bates worked for seven years in the U.S. embassy in London as liaison with Scotland Yard. Returning to the U.S. in 1965, he became chief of the FBI office in Omaha and later had similar assignments in Cleveland, San Francisco and Chicago. Once, the lanky, 6-ft. 2-in. Bates was almost killed: in 1968, when he went after a kidnaper in a building in Aptos, Calif. Says...
...tanker from the Argyll field. Energy Secretary Anthony Wedgwood Benn, raising a flask of crude on high, called the event cause for "a day of national celebration." Next month oil should begin moving from Britain's promising Forties field through a 120-mile pipeline to Cruden Bay on Scotland's east coast. Some time during the next few weeks, crude will begin arriving at Teesside, England, through a 220-mile pipeline from the Ekofisk field in Norway's sector of the North Sea. The oil belongs to Norway but is being pumped ashore to Britain; a deep...
Nowhere, though, has the North Sea's impact been more evident than on the political and social landscape. Scotland has turned into a tartan Texas-with an ego to match. Scotland wants the oil landing on its shores for itself, and the issue has reopened an old wound: Scottish nationalism...
With riches from six North Sea fields either landing or scheduled to appear on its shores, Scotland's most important liquid asset these days is not whisky but oil. From the Shetland Islands (noted for knitwear and shaggy ponies) in the north, to Peterhead, Edinburgh and Glasgow, oil is becoming Scotland's biggest industry. Already it is creating jobs, money and humor. One joke about the high pay of Scottish oil workers: "Did you hear that one of the welders married a commoner...
Local talk proclaims that the Scots like the Americans better than the English. That could possibly be all too true. Scottish nationalists are on the march, declaring in stickers everywhere: IT'S SCOTLAND'S OIL. The growing Scottish National party favors an independent Scotland, with its own Parliament and its own lucrative oil industry for the benefit of Scotland's 5 million people. At the very least, it wants more home rule, or "devolution." The "Scotnats" have shown erratic strength at the polls; most recently their candidate soundly defeated Labor and Conservative contenders in a regional election...