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Indeed almost everything has changed about the oil business since the case began in the tumult of the mid-1970s. Then, in the face of severe energy shortages during the vicious winter of 1976-77 and huge oil company profits, politicians called for crackdowns on oil companies and demanded that they be split...
DELIVERING equally powerful performances are Lee Marvin as the cold-hearted, vicious American John Osborn, who comes to Russia to buy sables and falls lustfully in love with Irina, played by stunning newcomer Joanna Pacula. Resembling Natassia Kinski with her East European sultry good looks, Pacula proves as good an actress as she is beautiful. Irina, a young Siberian woman who desperately wants to leave Russia, was friends with the three murdered victims. Pacula inculcates a quiet desperation in her Irina, who against her will falls in love with the inquisitive Renko. She monopolizes the screen with her strikingly passionate...
Japanese employers claim that most women leave their careers for marriage, but the Nippon Recruit Center's survey shows that among female college graduates, one in three wants to work until retirement and nearly half hope to return to work after childbearing. "It's a vicious circle," complains Yoko Kirino, 25, a graduate of Tokyo University's faculty of law who works for the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. "Women want to quit because the circumstances aren't that great and they're under a lot of pressure from their husbands. Meanwhile, the fact that women...
...everything possible to protect himself against kidnapers. Hidden TV cameras guarded his Amsterdam offices; high fences, security officers and vicious dogs protected his villa in Noordwijk, a seaside town 22 miles away. Last month his only daughter was married in secret, and though naturally spontaneous and gregarious, he asked newspapers to ignore his 60th birthday. As the multimillionaire chairman and majority stockholder of the brewery that bears his name, Alfred H. ("Freddie") Heineken had good reason to lie low: when a gang seized a fellow Dutch millionaire in 1977, making off with a ransom of $4.1 million, it inadvertently left...
AMERICANS can only express frustration as history repeats itself in Central America Neither the problems confronting the troubled region nor the cures diplomats and economists have proposed signal a significant change in the vicious cycle that has trapped the United States ever since it became a world power...