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Hundreds of Basques struggled up a steep slope to the burial place every day last week. Women left flowers, young peasants took photographs, priests led small groups in prayer. None of the 100 policemen occupying the town-"the Spanish," residents called them-dared remove the red, white and green Basque flag that covered the rocky grave...
LIKE SILVER BALLS rolling down the slope of a pinball machine, the presidential hopefuls shuttled through St. Louis this summer, trying to score some points at the Young Democrats' August convention. They bounced off the same bumpers, usually variations on energy and the economy, and often at the same angles, emphasizing continued price controls on domestic oil and public service jobs. Some bounced harder than others, advocating the breakup of the oil companies or wage and price controls in the inflation-prone food and energy sectors of the economy. The lights whirred and the bells changed, and the Young Democrats...
...earlier years but with more experience, maturity and confidence. Though only a trickle of oil is being pumped now, oilmen expect crude to flow in ever increasing quantities from an undersea supply estimated at 40 billion bbl., two to four times the recoverable reserves from Alaska's North Slope. Some experts say the total could be 70 billion bbl.-roughly equal to the so-far proven reserves of Kuwait-or even 150 billion...
...parade was a still a grand affair, but it had lost a lot of its solemnity as the Orangemen got drunk and tired. By the time the I reached Edenderry Field, suitcoats were off, bowlers tipped back, ties pulled down and disordered. Edenderry is an expansive horseshoe-shaped slope and the speakers' platform was tucked away in one corner under some trees--almost, it seemed, on purpose. Most of the revelers just lounged around on the grass, eating, drinking, or trying to get over hangovers from drinking earlier in the day. And only a small crowd gathered around the platform...
...will periodically turn over the proceeds, which ultimately will amount to $313 million, to Atlantic Richfield Co. (Arco), the nation's ninth largest petroleum company. Arco will use the money to pay interest and other costs of borrowing funds to develop its big gas deposits on the North Slope of Alaska. In return for the advance of the money, SoCal Gas gets the exclusive right to negotiate for 60% of Arco's North Slope gas when it starts flowing in about 1980. SoCal Gas is assured of the supply only so long as it agrees to meet...