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...face of declining demand, some OPEC prices have been tumbling. Members like Nigeria and Libya, which last January were demanding $40 and more for a barrel of their precious product, have been forced to cut rates in an effort to unload their crude. Nigeria slashed its prices twice, during the summer and autumn, to $34.50. Libya reduced its price by $1 per bbl., but sales still dropped by 60%. Underscoring the weakness in the world market, the big U.S. oil companies last week reported sharp profit drops for the period from July through September. Exxon's earnings fell...
...couple of weeks the crew will lounge and fish from the deck, staring at water so cold that, as oldtimers joke, the only reason for wearing a life preserver is to help rescuers spot the body. Meanwhile, on a gravel causeway 1½ miles away, workers prepare to unload Kardonsky's steel cathedral. Welders will separate the buildings from the barge decks. Transferred to the sort of crawlers that carry space rockets to launch pads, the buildings will creep to their final homes on the tundra amid frozen swamps, grazing caribou and flaming jets...
...story so far: Dick, the oldest, has just purchased new $ 1 million digs in the tony New Jersey suburb of Saddle River. He's now trying to unload, for $2.9 million, the East Side Manhattan town house he bought for $750,000 just two years ago. Jimmy, the youngest, is usually down home in Plains, Ga., watching his life pass before him on the video screen of his word processor. Last week the two took time out for trips abroad...
Solidarity blames the food shortages largely on the government's grossly inefficient distribution system. There is some support for that argument. Grain-bearing ships, for example, are often unable to unload at Polish ports because there is no room in the grain elevators. Reason: a lack of trains to transport the grain to Poland's hungry people...
...Bostonians who still cared gathered on Beacon Hill. There had been many more the night Bobby Sands died--more than 100 at one point, walking in a circle that stretched well down the street. That night there had been some hope; people talked about longshoremen refusing to unload British ships, and remembered how 200,000 Bostonians had marched when Terence McSwiney. Lord Mayor of Cork, starved in the 1920's. It's only a matter of time, they were saying. But they knew better, or should have...