During the 1974 Mideast oil crisis, the American engineer Hewitt Crane, then working at S.R.

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But most of Clinton's final, full-fledged press conference of the year touched on weightier issues, particularly the American role in Bosnia, Mideast peace prospects, the Asian economic crisis and the possibility of tax cuts in next year's budget.

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