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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That's more than double the annual appropriation for defense spending.) Instead, the oil companies may well choose to buy up other energy producers, giving them even greater control of our energy future, while doing almost nothing to help increase energy production. Eleven oil companies already own 25 per cent of the coal industry, according to a September 1979 issue of Business Week, and are beginning to buy up the best small solar firms, jeopardizing the future of competition in the energy field...
...undergraduates surveyed, slightly more than 80 per cent opposed any form of military action and nearly 69 per cent agreed with Carter's actions since the Iranian students captured the embassy in Tehran and took 60 hostages a week...
Carter's announcement yesterday that the U.S. will stop direct purchasing of Iranian oil drew support from 68.3 per cent of the respondents. More than 45 per cent favored negotiations through the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) although many added the U.S. should not have accepted the PLO's offer of help until all other channels had been tried...
Although nearly 87 per cent of the students felt Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Iran, should not be turned over to the Iranians. 35.5 per cent favored deportation of the exiled leader...
Less than 5 per cent of the respondents said they favored deportation of Iranian students. "All students should be politically immune," one said...