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...these nations consists of a foreign-educated elite in Caracas, accustomed to air-conditioned Mercedes, plush skyscraper offices and country-club amenities. The other Venezuela includes more than 800,000 mi grants who have left the country's poor rural areas to make their homes in the tar-paper shacks that cling to the hills around the capital...
Reason for the planned cutback, according to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau: Canada's tar-sands oil reserve probably totals around 500 billion bbl., equal to that of the Middle Eastern nations but contained in sands deep beneath the Alberta soil and thus far too expensive to tap. Canada cannot even take full advantage of all the oil that it is now pumping; a cross-country pipeline goes eastward from Alberta and Saskatchewan only to Toronto. Thus, while Canada exports some of its western production to the U.S., it is forced to rely on imports to supply its eastern provinces...
...Arab oil embargo and originally scheduled for 1976, but currently bogged down in financing. The unstated purpose of last week's action was to pressure multinational oil companies, which have lately been pulling back on exploration because of increasing costs, into pressing ahead on development of the vast tar-sands deposits. At least one major company was not moved; a spokesman for Mobil said that the Canadian action was all the more reason why the U.S. should move faster to develop its own resources...
...none of it ever went on sale. Nonetheless, a number of Bordeaux merchants are worried about adverse publicity. After all, there are fresh memories of the notorious Vino Ferrari scandal of 1968, when Italian inspectors discovered that millions of quarts of red wine had been made from banana paste, tar acid, seaweed and other strange ingredients. It took the Italians five years to recover from that public relations disaster, and the Bordeaux wine industry is anxious. According to one story circulating in France, the Japanese are now producing Bordeaux-type wines and labeling them with a warning: BEWARE OF FRENCH...
...Clubs, the state's anti-gun-control lobby. Democrat Pete Flaherty, 49,mayor of Pittsburgh is a trustbusting populist who opposes busing, abortion and amnesty. While schweiker appeals to many urban Demacrats. Flaherty has a following among suburban Republicans. With issues in such confusion , Flaherty has tried to tar Swhweiker with Watergate even though Nixon and demanded the president's Resignation last May.Schweiker Leads...