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United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi, the leading producer, has been negotiating sporadically to raise from 60% to 100% the emirates' ownership of local production, but it has indicated that it plans to leave the current 60%-40% arrangement intact through 1976. Says U.A.E. Petroleum Minister Mani Said Utaiba: "We feel we shouldn't rush things...
...week maintained his sense of humor. While briefing congressional Republican leaders on foreign aid, he cracked, "I've been so busy figuring out what jobs I have left that I haven't had time to study this." Showing a visitor a dagger, a gift from the government of Abu Dhabi, Kissinger said with mocking menace, "You see what happens when you turn your back?" Informed by White House Barber Milton Pitts that Jerry Ford was next on his schedule, Kissinger responded, "Tell the President that the only place I'll get to see him now is in the barbershop...
...Ship Enterprise and its 430 crewpersons. As countless signs, T shirts and bumper stickers proclaimed last week in Chicago, STAR TREK LIVES! Star Trek? The old NBC-TV space western? Indeed. While a new TV season dawdles toward its debut, 142 U.S. stations and another 117 overseas from Abu Dhabi to Zambia keep rerunning and re-rerunning the series. With an army of fans ready to put their phaser beam guns on "kill" if it should be shot down, Star Trek attracts more viewers today than it did during its three-year network career...
Under Scrutiny. Consisting of New England Petroleum Corp. and some 40 affiliates, Carey's company supplies oil to New York State utilities and others along the Eastern seaboard. It also explores in the North Sea, pumps crude in Abu Dhabi, refines in the Bahamas, ships round the world by tanker, truck and pipeline, and owns storage terminals with a capacity of 25 million bbl. Most of the Carey Corp.'s business is with industrial customers. But a subsidiary, Burns Bros., supplies heating oil to New York metropolitan-area homes. In Canada, the group's Caloil affiliate sells...
Financed with plastic-coated petrodollars marked IN OIL WE TRUST, the player seeks to control and exploit all the countries belonging to the same color group-Saudi Arabia and Iran, for example, or Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah. Aside from the roll of the dice, advances or reverses occur when the would-be oil potentate lands on the space marked "Telex," where a message may order him to return to the Geneva Airport-equivalent to Monopoly's "Go" position-notify him of a crippling tanker strike or tell him to skip ahead to be photographed for a TIME cover...