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...STORMIEST "VICTORY" AT SEA: The Jacksons, including Megabrother Michael, running into heavy weather with press and promoters as they concertized en famille for the final time...
This weekend, when the ministers of the world's least loved cartel gather in Vienna, the session is apt to be the stormiest ever. The members are poorer than they once were; oil exports lifted the current account balance of the OPEC nations to a record $109 billion surplus in 1980, but this year there will be a deficit, estimated at more than $15 billion. The delegates must face the painful fact that they can no longer control both prices and production at high levels, a nettlesome problem because OPEC members have shown little inclination to live with production...
...Carter Administration, the most pressing and stormiest question concerning the Shaba invasion was the nature and extent of the role played by the Soviet Union and by Cuba, which now has 20,000 soldiers and 4,000 civilians based in Angola. In addition, the U.S. and its European allies were concerned about how to extend some limited military support to the Zaïrian government of President Mobutu Sese Seko...
...half-century of commercial aviation in the U.S. The milestone, however, comes at a less than auspicious time for most major carriers. Buffeted by a recession-induced fall-off in air travel, exploding fuel costs and damaging uncertainties about Government regulation, the industry has been bucking one of the stormiest business climates in its history...
Gaddafi's stormiest encounter came in a meeting with 1,000 prominent Egyptian women, who expressed fears that the merger would mean that they would have to adopt the strict Islamic law relegating women to the second-class citizenship Gaddafi has forced on Libyan women. "Because of biological defects, a woman's place is in the home," intoned Gaddafi. "These are not defects, Mr. President!" came the outraged reply. "All right, then," responded Gaddafi, "nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps." That sexist sentiment hardly endeared him to the women. To make matters...