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...Teheran agreement illuminates the new power over industrial countries that the world's producers of raw materials can exert if they act in unison. Having made his point with oil, the Shah of Iran last week was talking of forming similar groupings of nations that produce coffee, copper, tin, rubber and other commodities to bargain with consuming countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Power to the Producers | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

...Dave Fish and Bob Stevens. Returning to Yale after three years in the army. Stevens had several incredible nicks in the opening game and was up 7-0 at one point. Fish won eight of the next nine points and went to 11-12 before he just tipped the tin twice to lose the first game...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Squash Team Beats Yale | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

...EVIDENCE indicates that the crop destruction program is widespread, that cases like that of the Song Re valley are not exceptions, and that the Montagnard people are being systematically destroyed. In Quang Nai and Quang Tin provinces, the food scheduled for destruction in 1970-71 was estimated for the Commission at 14,575 metric tons. That is enough to sustain around 50-70,000 people for a year. The targeted areas of those two provinces are the upland regions where the Montagnards live. The total Montagnard population of those two provinces is just under...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Montagnards of Song Re-A Story of Chemical Genocide | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

...steps proclaiming a kind of spirit that has long since passed from their lives as well as our own. The world of the dead Follies and the reality of the present intermingle constantly in Sondheim's work. No sooner does a performer do her old soft shoe than the tin-pan-alley trumpet fades into a somber and often dissonant piece of music Sondheim has written to capture the mood of disintegration that hangs over the ongoing celebration...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Theatre The Last Musical | 2/26/1971 | See Source »

...that carried. Looking tired and falling behind in the fourth game, Gonzalez played conservatively and won several long points to beat Kapur at number four. Luck? "I could see he was more tired than I was. He kept stalling between points and I was beating myself by hitting the tin," Gonzalez said. "So I decided to just keep the ball in play and let him force a shot to end it, and I won," he said without the slightest hint of surprise...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: A Touch of Garlic | 2/23/1971 | See Source »

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