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...late afternoon sun still seared the dusty streets of Marivan, a scramble of mud and stucco houses on a mountain slope near the Iraq border, as "solidarity" marchers arrived from Sanandaj, the Kurds' provincial capital (pop. 150,000). The more than 2,000 men, women and children had walked the 90 miles of gravel roadway from Sanandaj in four torturous days just so they could, as one of them bluntly put it, "tell the Tehran government to go to hell...
...states. Sitting amid the chrome and crushed velvet of Denver's Petroleum Club, Lewis gestures toward the Rocky Mountains still glazed with snow and exults: "This is today's big oil frontier. It is the most exciting thing in America's energy equation since the North Slope of Alaska...
...wilderness areas, in which little commercial activity is permitted. Still, the bill would permit oil companies to develop new sources of petroleum in 95% of the state's total area. The bill would also give concessions to certain established developers and open 22.5 million acres in the North Slope area west of Prudhoe Bay as a "national petroleum reserve" in which private companies could seek and produce...
...among other stockholders," and only then, when this does not bring about corporate withdrawal, to "adopt a policy of strategic divestiture." The struggle has been going on too long, and other universities have begun to divest. This is not the time to start a slow walk up a gradual slope...
...downright startling: SoCal's ARRIS earnings rose 43% over the past year, Gulfs profits increased 61%, and Texaco's were up 81%. Marathon Oil had a rise of 108%, while Amerada Hess jumped 279%. Standard Oil of Ohio, holder of a large and profitable stake on Alaska's North Slope, increased 303%; Continental Oil, which owns Consolidation Coal and suffered a slide in income during last I year's coal strike, posted a stunning recovery...