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...aside and not loaned to anyone. Known generally as Eurodollars, these expatriate greenbacks have accumulated as U.S. payments deficits, starting in the 1960s; lately they have been increasing dramatically as a result of the rising cost of imported oil. Today they form a $600 billion money mountain in Europe as well as in the Caribbean and other offshore tax havens, where they have escaped the control of the Federal Reserve. In the past, when the Fed tried to curb the pace of business?and inflation?by limiting the supply of money, banks were able to circumvent this tightening by obtaining...
About 500 yards before the finish, the otherwise flat course gradually slants downwards for 300 yards until it steepens precipitously for a 30-yard stretch which separate the boys from the mountain goats...
...leased for uranium exploration to five companies. Seven months later, in June 79, exploration had drastically increased. As one local commentator explains the situation, "At least seven companies are exploring for uranium in northern Minnesota, including such late arrivals as Exxon and Annaconda. The most heavily involved is Rocky Mountain Energy, a subsidiary of Union Pacific Railroad. Rocky Mountain has about 75 percent of the 125,00 acres that the companies have leased altogether from private landowners hoping for a big payday--few knowing about the dangers of uranium mining and the nuclear fuel cycle. The area involved is about...
Amin's accession is unlikely to bring much peace to the ancient mountain kingdom. Afghanistan has been in continuous turmoil since Taraki came to power, in April 1978, following a coup in which former President Mohammed Daoud was gunned down in Arg Palace. Taraki's Marxist Khalq (masses) Party promptly launched a radical program of social reform and land redistribution. The policy met with violent resistance from the country's Islamic tribesmen, who make up some 85% of Afghanistan's 17 million people. Loyal to their old feudal leaders and enraged by the new, "godless" regime...
...Charles Hansen, 32, a computer programmer in Mountain View, Calif, the Progressive case was infuriating. Hansen felt that the Government was guilty of a double standard, having allowed such information to be released in the first place. When his local activism on the subject caught the attention of Senator Charles H. Percy of Illinois, Hansen wrote him an 18-page letter explaining how an H-bomb works. He also fingered three renowned scientists who had already made much of that information public in articles and interviews, but unlike the Progressive, avoided prosecution: Princeton's Theodore Taylor; M.I.T...