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...that make sizable investments in Iran's giant oil and gas sector, like the 1995 Iran-Libya Sanctions Act, remain in force. The measure calls for U.S. sanctions on foreign companies that invest more than $20 million a year in Iran's energy sector, and last week Royal Dutch Shell admitted that could put in jeopardy its projected $10 billion investment in an Iranian gas field in cooperation with Spain's Repsol. Shell Chief Executive Jeroen van der Veer said, "I would like to emphasize that we have here quite a dilemma. This is Iran. They are the number...
...Economics. The husband, a diplomat in the Kuomintang regime, was enough of an optimist to decide to remain in Shanghai with his wife and young daughter after the Communists overthrew Chiang Kai-shek in 1949 and gained power in China. He went on to serve as general manager for Shell, the only multinational oil company to stay on after Mao Tse-tung's triumph. When he died of cancer in 1957, Shell brought in a Briton as its new manager and hired Nien Cheng as his special adviser. In 1966, the year in which Mao launched the frenzied upheaval known...
...Sept. 27, I was taken to the same school building I had gone to in July. This time I was the object of the ''struggle'' meeting, attended not only by the Red Guards and the Revolutionaries who had come to my house but also by the former staff of Shell. The man with the tinted spectacles was in charge. He was quite a fluent speaker. He started with the Opium War of 1840, giving a vivid description of how the invading fleet of Britain bombarded the Chinese coast. He spoke as if it were I who had led the British...
...described how activists selected by Jiang Qing and Lin Biao tortured Liu's associates to make them provide false evidence.) In the spring of 1969, after nearly three years in prison, I was handcuffed and taken back to that same building where I had watched the crowd ''struggle'' against Shell's chief accountant, Tao Feng. I was half-thrown, half-dropped onto the floor. One man kept his hand on my head so that I could not look around. The other people in the room were shouting slogans demanding my downfall and destruction. ''Here she is!'' shouted the meeting...
...have been so slow that we will probably be late,'' the other man added. ''What's the meeting about?'' I asked. ''There's no need to ask so many questions,'' the activist said. ''We would not be here if we did not have authority. All the former members of Shell have to attend this meeting. It's very important. Don't you know the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has started?'' The servants looked anxious as I left. We all knew that since Mao took over, innumerable people had left their homes during the political campaigns and never come back...