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When supplies of anything get too large for their markets, prices come down-or at least they should. For all the power of the OPEC cartel, oil is proving to be no exception. A worldwide glut has developed as new supplies from the North Sea, Alaska and Mexico supplement oil from the Middle East and South America -at a time when the shaky world economic recovery cannot absorb all of it. One result: price shaving by most of the big producers. Kuwait, Iran and Saudi Arabia are all offering slight discounts of 100 to 300 off the price (about...
...Nairobi, the Third World bloc tried to push through a Soviet-backed proposal endorsing greater government control of the international flow of news (a U.S. lobbying effort stalled the motion). The bloc did succeed, however, in gaining UNESCO backing for a new Third World press pool that would supplement-and, some press libertarians fear, eventually supplant-the Western wire services in those countries. Says H.L. Stevenson, editor and vice president of U.P.I.: "If this pool decides it wants to give out handouts at the airport, that's it-we don't get into the countries...
...without reason or mercy. Gradually, however, another side of her character emerges: trapped in a life of broken dreams, she is seen as the only force holding her family together. As her husband Charlie, Rick Guthrie is a broken dreamer, unable to produce the money the family needs to supplement their daughter's newly won scholarship, while Nikki Harris, as the daughter, cannot accept the emptiness of the opportunity the government has offered...
...radical priests in America, both politics and religion seem to be becoming tagged as code-words for corruption and cover-up. Cynics increasingly view both church and state as homes for the fanatically ambitious, who brandish the Bible and the Constitution indiscriminately in their struggles for power. Politicians now supplement arm-twisting with prayer, while prelates and deacons have perfected the art of political infighting...
...Kingman Brewster, 57, president of Yale University, to Great Britain. A confirmed Anglophile who vacations in England, Brewster has one apparent drawback: insufficient wealth. The appointment to the Court of St. James's has traditionally gone to those who could afford to supplement the U.S. embassy's presumably meager budget (currently $49,500) for entertainment and related expenses. However, Carter aides have vowed that personal wealth will not be an ambassadorial requirement in even the poshest post...