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...company's huge treasure chest of natural resources. Conoco has oil drilling rigs from the Gulf of Mexico to the South China Sea, coal mines from West Virginia to Alberta, natural gas wells from Texas to the North Sea and uranium deposits from New Mexico to Niger. Since the first oil price explosion in 1973, the value of Conoco's assets has soared from $2.6 billion to $14 billion. The firm's oil and gas holdings alone have a value of $2.3 billion on Conoco's books, but experts say that they are actually worth...
...invader will encounter U.S.-made surface-to-air missiles. Moscow's cloak-and-dagger agents, bagmen and propagandists should also have to contend with American operatives trying to organize pro-Western political forces. When that day comes, Thailand will be less likely to go the way of Cambodia, Niger the way of Chad, or Oman the way of South Yemen. Clearly stated declarations of U.S. commitments and vital interests would inject some uncertainty-and possibly some additional caution-into Soviet calculations...
...French government quickly tried to limit the political damage caused by the discovery of its ambiguous policy. Industry Minister André Giraud immediately took action to cancel the oil contract with Libya. Foreign Ministry officials were dispatched from Paris to reassure other French-speaking nations such as Niger, Senegal and the Ivory Coast that France was prepared to bolster their defenses. Said French Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet: "France will, as it always has, stand by its African friends to defend their security...
...planet is about the size of earth. But there are a few differences: its only river is longer than the Nile, the Congo, the Niger, the Amazon, the Orinoco and the Mississippi-combined. And its inhabitants are not exactly the folks next door. For inexplicably resurrected on both banks of the mysterious river is every soul who ever lived, from hairy cave dwellers to modern Homo sapiens, from the totally unknown to such famous figures as Joan of Arc, Karl Marx and Hermann Göring...
...already felt confusion." His brother George, both a De Gramont and a brand manager for Lipton Tea, said that Morgan was throwing away a valuable brand name. (Sanche de Gramont had written several books, including an astringent national portrait, The French, and a good popular history of the Niger River, The Strong Brown God.) The author ignored all this and became Morgan...