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...wire litter the sand around the deserted town of Ras Sudr, once a dusty bedroom community for Egyptian and foreign workers at the nearby oilfields. The wells of Ras Sudr produce only 3,000 bbl. of crude a day−a trickle by Middle Eastern standards and only a fraction of the 75,000 bbl. daily pumped out of Abu Rudeis. But the desolate, cactus-covered patch of desert with its huddle of workers' decaying cottages has a considerable symbolic importance. Under the second Sinai accord worked out last summer by Secretary Kissinger, Ras Sudr was scheduled...
...tree was only inches in diameter and nobody could have hidden behind it. Moreover, the "gunman" disappears in a fraction of a second; the suspected shape is visible on only three frames of the film...
Riccardo is expected back in London this week to hear the government's decision. The betting is that Master Compromiser Wilson will find some solution-perhaps lending Chrysler a fraction of the money it wants so that it can salvage healthy parts of its business or try to bring out a new model. Even that would set an uncomfortable precedent...
...unified Cambridge Convention '75 campaign did have a significant effect citywide. Over 5,600 new voters registered this year. Turnout increased by nearly 2,000 over its 1973 level. The corresponding fraction of "number one" votes received by liberals improved from 40 to 42 per cent for City Council candidates and from 43 to 47 per cent on the School Committee side...
...Belmont, however, these issues form a small fraction of the bookshelves. The pride and joy of Society headquarters is the $40,000 mail-stuffing machine, which according to Gotch, can put as many as nine enclosures in a letter, fold, seal, and stamp a computer-typed address on it, and churn 'em out at 50 per minute...