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...totaling $10,000 to an official of an unnamed government "were improperly described on the books of the company and may have been improperly deducted for U.S. income tax purposes." Tenneco also acknowledged making contributions to candidates in Louisiana that violated state law. Meanwhile, there were reports that the Venezuelan Government was investigating bribes paid by Occidental Petroleum to local officials...
...Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, 56, had offended sticklers for protocol by wearing one of her husband's old campaign T shirts in Cuba, by toasting the women's movement during a state banquet in Mexico, and by singing a song she had written for the wife of Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez in Caracas. When Margaret heard fans of an Ottawa ra dio show complaining of her conduct over the air, she placed a tearful call to the station. "I don't feel I did anything wrong," she said. "If you rely completely on protocol...
...shunned emotional rhetoric and consistently rejected far-left demands that it eject 21 foreign oil companies without compensation. For their part, the companies, headed by Exxon, accepted with only minimal grumbling a shade over $1 billion-10% of it in cash and most of the rest in five-year Venezuelan government bonds-for equipment and concessions that they value at $5 billion. Said one official of the former Exxon subsidiary, Creole Petroleum: "Venezuela has reached the point where it finds foreign control of its chief industry unacceptable and degrading. It would be silly for us to fight...
...raid leader was indeed the Carlos, however, his name is Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez. He is 26, the son of a Venezuelan Communist intellectual who gave each of three sons one of Lenin's names: Vladimir, Ilyich and Lenin. Carlos was recruited by the KGB in his homeland and sent to Moscow's Lumumba University for training sometime in the late '60s. He also attended four special institutes run by the Soviet secret police near Moscow, where he took courses in political indoctrination, sabotage, the use of weapons and killer karate...
Venezuela. Nationalization of all oil operations will be completed by Jan. 1. Venezuelan Oil Minister Valentin Hernandez said the government would pay 39 foreign companies slightly more than $1 billion in cash and 6% bonds for their holdings. Exxon will get $512 million, Shell $240 million. The companies are not satisfied-Exxon reportedly had hoped to get $90 million more -but they have reluctantly accepted the government's offer and are planning to market nationalized Venezuelan oil in North America and Europe...