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...requirement of uniformity." The ruling, which came in a suit brought by the Independent Petroleum Association of America and other oilmen, could force the U.S. Treasury to return some $23 billion collected from oil companies since the tax took effect in 1980. Worse yet, from the Government's standpoint, the judge's Nov. 4 decision could shut off permanently an important source of revenue. Says one Treasury official: "We're worried. In fact, we're very worried...
...pale blue Bedouin robes or stylish dark suit, with half a dozen Kalashnikov-toting female bodyguards in blue berets swelling his progress, Gaddafi had spent the previous few days reading reports and consulting with other Arabs about the news from Lebanon. None of it was good from his standpoint. He had just seen off the last of his African guests and changed into a loose-fitting short-sleeve shirt and slacks. The exhaustion showed on his face and sounded in his voice. Instead of English, which he speaks well, he preferred to answer questions in Arabic as he conversed with...
...Israeli intransigence. Said Harold Saunders, former Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East: "The Reagan Administration warned Israel in no uncertain terms not to move into Lebanon. Not only did Israel proceed to invade, but it did so at the worst of all possible times from a U.S. standpoint. What does that tell you about Israel's respect...
...would have continued to draw comment one could encounter debates over the triteness of the stories the taste of the cover photo the problem of so few lesbian writers. If printing the magazine was intended to improve the community's awareness of gay outlooks and emotions from an artistic standpoint--as seems likely from the number of copies distributed in dining halls--the students who discussed such matters probably wound up hardly more "converted" than the majority who disdained even that much introspection, tossing the magazine aside with a wince...
...world, to ask them to harmonize their essential interests with its trade policy. That is always easy, sometimes justified, but in any case insufficient. Such complaints seem all the more futile in that they place Western European countries in a position to ask the U.S. to clarify its own standpoint...