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...natural gas industry faces an uncertain future as it adjusts to the recent federal deregulation of its industry, participants in a Kennedy School of Government seminar said yesterday...
Part of the city's largest public housing project, Tlatelolco, was reduced to what a local paper called "a collective tomb." With thousands of families living in about 40 buildings, the final death toll at Tlatelolco was still uncertain by week's end, but it was assumed to be high. All that was left of one of the project's high-rises, the 13-story Nuevo Leon, was a 100-ft.-high pile of concrete and reinforcing bars. With at least 40 occupants found dead and 230 counted as injured, officials feared that 1,500 remained trapped, alive or dead...
...rest of the world, aware of the quake but uncertain as to its impact, the disruption of communications caused in part by the collapse of Mexico City's main transmission tower prolonged the suspense. Only TV-13 provided information, and only to those who were fortunate enough to still have electricity; sections of the city were without power. A station in Bogota, Colombia, was able to monitor the Mexican channel's transmissions via satellite, and relayed the highlights to the outside world. International telephone and telex circuits were down and, as during the U.S. invasion of Grenada...
However, the committee qualified its position, cautioning that some graduate students already receive inadequate attention from the Faculty. The committee also warned that today's scholars face "uncertain employment prospects...
...chitchatted his way through a crowd of nearly 500, posing patiently for pictures with spouses and children. On one of the final days of his vacation, the President gave no indication that yet another testing time awaits his Administration when official Washington returns to business this week. A seemingly uncertain White House faces an unusual confluence of difficult tasks: preparing for the summit with the Soviets in Geneva, negotiating with Congress on a policy toward South Africa, reviving the dormant campaign for tax reform, and keeping even the modest deficit- reduction program from dissolving into a veto-ridden stalemate. Reagan...