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...addition to quality football in camera angles, the league has some dope gear. The San Antonio Riders may be ready to replace to San Jose Sharks as the logo of choice on caps and jackets. So the only place you can get the stuff these days is some firm called RAJ Manufacturing out in Tustin, California or at the stadium--give the League time and the gear will be every where...
More distressing, this latest downturn gives every indication of being permanent. Faced with languishing prices, lower profit margins and tight environmental hurdles to new exploration, the major oil companies are selling off their properties, packing up their drilling gear and heading overseas. Ten billion dollars in assets are on the block as exploration and production head for Africa, South America and the Far East, where drilling costs can be cheaper by half and government sweeteners make new ventures enticing. As the majors lay off workers and leave, those independent companies that can are following. Others are closing up shop...
...outside the Houston Astrodome. ACT UP and Queer Nation have been booking hotel rooms and preparing for mass arrests. The protesters do not plan to apply for any permits, since that would reduce the opportunities for havoc. Houston police < are armed to the teeth with the latest in riot gear...
...middle class. He has been sighted in a Frederick, Md., JCPenney store buying socks and recorded in New Hampshire's political precincts slanging from the stump about frogs without wings and liberals jumping on an unspecified part of his anatomy. Last week he uncovered a cache of supermarket checkout gear at the Orlando convention of the National Grocers Association. The pampered and protected President was dazzled. Supermarket habitues have been using the stuff for more than a decade...
Perez was able to return to his office a few hours later. Most of the armed forces had remained loyal, and air force F-16 jets strafed rebel positions, blocking their movements and disrupting their communications. The coup leader, Lieut. Colonel Hugo Chavez Frias, 37, dressed in combat gear and a red paratrooper's beret, turned himself in 12 hours after the shooting began, but warned that the military might find "another occasion." More than 1,200 rebel soldiers surrendered, including 136 officers. Officials said as many as 7,000 of the 73,000 troops in the armed forces...