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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...considered lucky to have been rowing at all in 1972. After his graduation from Princeton, he had gone into naval aviation before considering that "since the Vietnam war was really going then" he might be safer in another part of the navy. Appropriately, even if only through what he terms "unbelievable luck," Raymond found himself coaching the Naval Academy freshman heavyweights in 1970 and 1971. His term over, he escaped from the Navy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Raymond: Modest Olympic Medalist | 3/21/1979 | See Source »

...only is Iraq raising its official price for long-term petroleum contracts, but it is also selling shipments on an individual basis at the even higher spot market prices. Nigeria has also reportedly made deliveries to Israel for as high as $23 per bbl., vs. the official OPEC price of $13.34. Oilmen say that Libya's purpose in reducing sales under long-term contracts is both to prop up the price and to have some additional tonnage of its own to gamble with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Petro-Perils Proliferate | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

Seventy-two percent of the gas now going out to consumers is bound under long-term contract at the old price of 75? per thousand cubic feet. But many of these contracts are about to expire. So, as more gas comes onto the market at the new prices of between $1.99 and $2.26 per thousand cubic feet, consumers will be hit with increases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Natural Gas Up | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...barred the entry of an American woman when the computer informed them that she had been thrown out of the Soviet Union two years before for Bible smuggling. Most people caught in the act are simply questioned for a few hours and then refused entry. The longest prison term to date was 3½ years, given by Czechoslovakia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Smugglers of the Word | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

Ironically, the long-term effectiveness of the Bible-smuggling operations now seems threatened by scandal in the U.S. Underground Evangelism and Jesus to the Communist World have lately struggled in a bitter and squalid feud run out of their California headquarters. The battle involves a $1.5 million defamation suit rising from charges and countercharges made by Wurmbrand about Bass's personal behavior, and it threatens to spread to questions about Bass's ways of accounting for some of the $8.7 million a year his group raises. The situation could take years to untangle. The two organizations together depend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Smugglers of the Word | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

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