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...copper sells for about half what it did five years ago, and cleaning up the environment absorbs many of the resulting pennies. So K.U.C. was pleased to stumble onto an asset that doesn't appear on the balance sheet of its corporate parent, Anglo-Australian mining behemoth Rio Tinto: its own backyard. There, a 4,500-acre community is expected to be built on a reclaimed polluting ground. Wheat grows there...
...project will address the valley's rapid growth and repay some of the environment-related capital expenses Rio Tinto has incurred during its 12-year ownership--a $2 billion total that includes a new, cleaner, $1 billion smelter. Bingham Canyon will wind down in the next 15 years, sticking Rio Tinto with further cleanup bills. The company's half-year returns show that K.U.C. constitutes 15% to 20% of its asset base but generated just 3% to 4% of its $841 million profit. Over the next 20 to 25 years, K.U.C.'s Sunrise could bring Rio Tinto the current equivalent...
Arrien, bombed out and rebuilt, the old men, many with Gudari (Basque republic soldier) emblems in their lapels, sit drinking tinto, playing cards and ruminating about Spain's first parliamentary elections in 41 years, to be held next June. They remain insistent that the truth must come forth about Guernica. "We need to get at the whole truth," says Pensioner Juan Aguirre, 61, "and we still don't have...
With that end in mind, Guccione chose Italian Tinto Brass to direct his movie. Virtually unknown even in Italy, despite ten pictures to his credit, Brass had won Guccione's admiration with his last film, Salon Kitty, a spy thriller set in a Nazi brothel. Brass, a Falstaffian figure with a temper as big as his waistline, soon decided that Vidal's script was too bourgeois for his taste. "It was the work of an aging arteriosclerotic," he says. "Vidal redid it five times, but it was still absurd." With the help of McDowell, Brass rewrote the screenplay...
...million Penthouse production of Gore Vidal's Caligula has had all the success of an open-air orgy in Antarctica. First, Writer Gore Vidal quarreled with Director Tinto Brass and was barred from the movie's sets in Rome. Next to exit was Actress Maria Schneider, who called the film biography of the Roman emperor "a grotesque pornographic movie," and walked out after a day's shooting. "For an enormous amount of money they're asking people to prostitute themselves. I was ready and willing to act, but not to take my clothes...