Word: westerners
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...output from Alaska, Mexico and the North Sea. But it would be foolhardy to expect that OPEC will any time soon lose its ability to control prices. Saudi Arabia alone has more than 25% of all proven world reserves; its daily output of 8.5 million bbl. is indispensable to Western Europe and Japan, and provides more than one-fifth of all U.S. crude imports...
...watched HBO programs until January, when Teleprompter bought half of Showtime and switched from HBO's service to Showtime's on all Teleprompter cable systems. Showtime does not offer sports; it concentrates on movies and entertainment specials, many for an older audience attuned to country and western music. But it is trying more adventurous approaches too. In March it treated viewers to a peek at the topless chorus girls of the Folies Bergere in Paris (a similar show had been on HBO earlier). Its other offerings have included What's Up, America?, a magazine-type show taking...
...Western newsmen are hassled
...Western analysts were surprised by the timing of the harassment of the Knights and Hann. It came during a delicate phase of the SALT negotiations, a record rate of Jewish emigration and a visit to Moscow by a group of U.S. Congressmen that ended last week, and just before the dramatic spy-dissidents swap. But foreign correspondents in Moscow have long been the targets of petty, and occasionally serious, persecution. Some have been roughed up by police, subjected to threatening interrogation, and accused of working for the CIA. Others have been targets of whispered charges of debauchery and homosexuality. Last...
...delegation is part of a barrage of scientific and technical study groups which will visit the U.S. and other Western countries this year as part of the Chinese Academy of Science's increased scientific exchange plans...