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...press conference, or rather the non-conference, was vintage Gaddafi. After two days of waiting, anxious revolutionary committeemen herded the press out of our hotels for a breathtaking, Libyan-style drive through the narrow streets of Tripoli. Lights blinking and horns blaring, the wild caravan raced to a walled compound where soldiers wielding submachine guns waved us through a gate flanked by two Russian T-72 tanks. For the fifth time since my arrival I was thoroughly searched. Inside the handsome government offices with beautifully crafted wooden Arabic arches, television crews set up their equipment on priceless rugs. Then...
Exactly what made the clans so extravagantly unfriendly is open to conjecture. Maybe Randolph McCoy was sore at a Hatfield for stealing a razorback hog. Maybe he was angry at his daughter Rose Anne, pregnant by Johnse Hatfield after a frolic in 1880, for moving, unmarried, into the Hatfield compound. Or maybe the cause was the packs of Hatfields who crossed the Tug Fork and went swaggering around the Kentucky election grounds. Whatever the reason, the furies were unambiguously loosed on a whisky-sodden day 100 years ago next August. One of McCoy's sons taunted an unarmed Ellison...
...morning, 100 policemen surrounded the factory, which sits amid the Victorian terrace houses of Manchester's Openshaw district. Officers calmly asked the workers to move away from the factory gates and the 15-ft. wall surrounding the compound. Slowly the picketers obeyed, glaring at police during a tense half-hour...
...computer terminals at brightly colored, twisting geometric shapes reminiscent of an alien virus in a science-fiction epic. The scientists are testing the action of a new drug on an enzyme through computer simulation. Says Merck Research Fellow Graham Smith: "Instead of taking a month to synthesize a new compound, we can now do it in a few minutes...
Whatever individuals may have cashed in on the deal, the acquisition should be beneficial for both Santa Fe and Kuwait. Though it has grown at a compound annual rate of nearly 23% since 1950, Santa Fe in recent years has been forced to invest larger and larger amounts of capital to keep expanding. Kuwaiti ownership would give the firm the financial clout to broaden its presence in such lucrative markets as the British North Sea, where it holds a 16% interest in the Thistle Field...