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...Saudis maintain current production or not, oil-consuming nations can hardly rest easy. Temporary surpluses in 1978 and 1980 quickly evaporated after the outbreak of the Iranian revolution and the Iran-Iraq war. A pickup of the U.S. and European economies and the resulting increased demand for oil would wipe out the mini-glut just as quickly this time. Says Ulf Lantzke, director of the Paris-based International Energy Agency: "We are in balance at the moment, but it is a rather fragile balance." With some 60% of world oil reserves buried under the sands of the always volatile Middle...
...Crimson lost two to Army by scores of 15-8 and 16-14 before rebounding to wipe out a "better than the score indicated" Albany State...
...security of the state," warned the Pontiff, "could lead to the temptation to subjugate the people, their dignity and their rights to the state." Discarding a prepared reply, Marcos seemed chastened in his first response: "Forgive us, Holy Father. Now that you are here, we resolve that we shall wipe out all conflicts and set up a society that is harmonious, to attain the ends of God." After the Pope, the President, the First Lady and their two daughters had retired for a 50-minute conversation, Marcos emerged looking unusually solemn. He later went on television to report that...
From the air Medford at first looks fairly familiar, a blacktop and stucco fantasia of gas stations and fast-fooderies sprawling out along a meandering, not-too-clean creek. But the mountains that rim the valley are tipped with snow and trimmed with dark firs that wipe the skyline like distant eyelashes. "Gee, Dad," the boy says, nose pressed to the window, "could we really move out here...
...Soviets have decided to wipe out the Harvard-MIT braintrust by dropping a 25-megaton nuclear warhead in Cambridge, but the CIA finds out in time to warn President Reagan, who notifies Governor King, who calls Chester E. Hallice...