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...Like other members of the tight-knit international shipping community, they are uncertain what impact the marriage will have on the $500 million Onassis fleet, in which Christina has a 48% interest. (The rest is held by the Monte Carlo-based Alexander Onassis Foundation, which is run by a troika of Ari's cronies.) About 90% of the fleet's tanker business involves the transportation of Saudi Arabian oil. The anti-Communist Saudis may be reluctant to renew their charters in the future and would have no difficulty in finding replacements for the Onassis fleet...
Ismail may need outside help to consolidate his hold over the country. South Yemen's Prime Minister Ali Nasser Mohammed Hasani is described by one knowing U.S. observer as a "self-serving opportunist." Defense Minister Ali Antar, the third man in the country's new troika, is-in the words of this diplomat -no better than "a dumb thug...
Southern Connecticut's number one man Billy Rea played the role of the Pied Piper with a four-over par 75, one stroke ahead of the Crimson troika. Another Southern Connecticut player strung together a 74 but was officially ineligible to play because of his transfer status...
...Chairman. At week's end reports out of Peking said that Hua had been re-elected Premier, while Party Vice Chairman Yeh Chien-ying, 79, would also be China's equivalent to chief of state. Earlier, there had been speculation that the third member of the ruling troika, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, 73, the wily pragmatist who had been a leading victim of the Cultural Revolution, might get Hua's top job. But Teng was said to have announced that he did not want it. partly because...
...Chairman Hua stressed a favorite Teng program: the "four modernizations" of agriculture, industry, defense, and science and technology. And a draft of a new national constitution for China introduced by Yeh hinted at wage increases and other incentives for workers, which Mao had opposed. Since coming to power, the troika has given some 20 million workers their first pay raises in almost two decades (though average urban salaries still remain in the $20-to $30-a-month range...