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Such charges stir hurricanes of protest on the rigs. Says Pat Byler, production foreman at Shell's Vermilion Block 22 field, six miles off Louisiana: "My blood pressure goes up when I hear them talk about withholding." Nonetheless, gasmen privately concede that investigators from Washington will uncover a few examples of withholding...
...used in the U.S. Congress. Begun in the 1880s to combat the obstructionist tactics of Irish Nationalist Charles Parnell and his colleagues, the guillotine has been a welcome procedure for circumventing parliamentary bottlenecks. But when employed prematurely to close off debate on major, hotly contested legislation, it can stir up the wrath of M.P.s on both sides of the floor. Last week Prime Minister James Callaghan's Labor government ran into just that kind of resistance when House Leader Michael Foot tried to ram through a guillotine vote to restrict debate on the devolution bill, which would give limited...
...They didn't have to tell me." This time around, she received tributes to her "great artistic skills and feminine qualities"; the latter presumably commemorated her matrimonial stardom. As Sixth Husband John Warner looked on proudly, the actress accepted an enormous Hasty Pudding spoon "for making a big stir wherever she goes" and a 6-in. hunk of Lucite cut in the shape of a diamond. She held it next to her beringed finger, then gasped in mock alarm: "It's a fake...
...appointment of Bird, a tall Arizona-born, Berkeley-trained lawyer and close political confidante of Brown's, that is causing a stir. The California Trial Lawyers Association hailed her nomination as "one of the most significant acts" of the Brown administration. But others are not so sure...
...Soviets are righting back by arguing that the dissidents are only a handful of troublemakers who are cleverly using the Western press to draw attention to themselves and are in turn being used by Western governments to stir up trouble in Communist countries. Last week Pravda accused the West of dangling dissidents "on the fishing rod of bourgeois propaganda" so as to distract "the masses from the deep crisis in the capitalist system...