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...Everyone told us it would be around 30?? to 40°, but this is ridiculous. We have never experienced anything like this." TAMARA NEEMA, a Californian visiting New York City's Times Square, as temperatures matched a record...
Iraq is required to apply each month to the U.N. for approval of the price it charges for crude. But Iraq usually requests a number at least 50¢ per bbl. below the going price. Then Baghdad demands an illegal surcharge of, say, 30?? per bbl. on top of the U.N.-approved price. The arrangement still gives buyers a 20¢ discount...
Buyers then write two checks. One, at the official, U.N.-approved price, is deposited in a U.N.-monitored Iraqi bank account in New York City. But the 30?? kickback goes directly to Saddam after deposit in an Iraqi bank account in Jordan or some other location over which the U.N. has no control. During one 10-month period in 2000 and 2001, officials working with the U.N. determined that Iraq had successfully imposed a 30??-per-bbl. surcharge, netting Saddam $175 million...
...days later?at 2:35 p.m. on Monday, March 30???the State Department command center informed me that the television networks were reporting that a gunman had fired shots at President Reagan as he left the Washington Hilton Hotel but that the President had escaped injury. I picked up a telephone connected to a direct White House line. James Baker told me that the first report was inaccurate. The President had been struck "in the back" by a bullet. "It looks quite serious," Baker said. "I'm going to the hospital...
...nuclear power plant. The cost of a watt from photovoltaic cells has come down from $22 in 1975 to between $8 and $10 today. The Department of Energy has set a goal of reducing the cost to $2 by 1982, to 50¢ by 1986 and to no more than 30?...