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...during the years 1975-78, when Nigerian crude was not selling well because of a short-lived world oil glut, the three oil companies, which pump approximately 80% of Nigeria's normal production of some 2 million bbl. daily, had cut back production, at the government's request, to an average of about 1.7 million bbl. a day. Traditionally, the companies had been splitting their production on a 45%-55% basis with the government, for daily liftings of about 1 million bbl. of crude. In order to stay at that level, the companies kept somewhat more...
...serious offenses were released on bond. While some Iranians immediately headed back to Washington for more demonstrations, others first stopped off at the Islamic Center. None seemed inclined to return to Iran, although White House Press Secretary Jody Powell pointedly declared: "We would be happy to honor any such request...
...security chief, including one on television in which the cameras focused on a tape recorder emitting his voice. (Israeli censorship law forbids the chiefs name or photograph to be published.) Achituv flatly denied that he had encountered interference in his investigation. His resignation, he said, had been a routine request to step down at the end of the year. What is more, he added, it had been submitted "before the attack on the mayors...
Aside from tubercular pleas--"Please don't put me with a smoker"--students are rarely idiosyncratic. A few know whom they want to room with, some request a new or old building, but most are not familiar enough with the Yard to ask for a particular dorm. Race is rarely a problem either. While the senior advisers can hardly be color-blind--you put a photograph on the rooming application, remember? --they only occasionally consider race as a determining factor. They never get demands to keep any particular race out of a room, though a Black applicant who hopes...
Even last year, several dorms--Holworthy, the middle entry of Thayer--were all male. But the Freshman Dean's Office proudly announces that this year, for the first time, the entire Yard is "coedded," to nearly everyone's pleasure. It has been many years since the advisers received a request for a single-sex dorm...