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...mittens is, of course, dictated by the desire to show off his huge, ever straining biceps. Still, you hate to see a guy risking pneumonia for his art, so it's a relief when, a couple of shots after he has fought a subsidiary bad guy in an icy tarn, his shirt is shown to be miraculously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snow Job in a Dry T Shirt | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

...about OPEC's ability to live up to its decrees. During a cordial but "extremely frank" meeting, as one participant described it, ministers from Iran, Venezuela and Algeria lambasted their Nigerian colleague for helping to set off the crisis. Citing Nigeria's dire economic woes, Oil Minister Tarn David-West rebuffed pressure to restore his country's petroleum price or to cut its production target "by even one barrel." Said he: "Oil is the life of Nigeria. The Nigerian heart must pump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Oil a Scarcer Commodity | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...plan for holding the line on prices. But almost immediately after the meeting was announced, a member broke ranks. Nigeria, one of the poorest OPEC countries, cut the price of its Bonny Light crude by $2, to $28, in order to prevent a decline in sales. Nigerian Oil Minister Tarn David-West said the country had to place its own economic health on a higher priority than its loyalty to OPEC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil Exporters on a Slippery Slope | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

Labor M.P. Tarn Dalyell sent documents to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons suggesting that the government had withheld information about the Belgrano affair from the committee. Dalyell also alleged that British forces were not in immediate danger when they attacked the Belgrano. Clive Ponting, 38, a Defense Ministry official, told the Sunday Observer that he has been charged under the Official Secrets Act with giving the documents to Dalyell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: A Sinking Defense | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...Tarn Cuong Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 23, 1981 | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

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