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Japan must import 99.7% of its oil, as well as almost all the coal, iron ore and other raw materials needed to keep its production lines humming. To soften the blow of rising commodities prices, the triumvirate of banking, business and government has pursued a subtly effective policy of slowing the growth of resource-intensive industries such as steel and petrochemicals, and channeling more of the nation's capital into "knowledge-intensive" industries such as microelectronics and computers. That is one reason why, throughout most of the energy-dazed 1970s, Japan has held inflation relatively low and employment high...
RUBY concerned the infiltration of spies into the camp of Democratic contenders, then [into that of] the successful candidate. COAL was the program to furnish money clandestinely to Shirley Chisholm of New York to finance her as a contender and force Democratic candidates to fight off a black woman, bound to generate ill feeling among blacks and, we hoped, with women. EMERALD would use a chase plane to eavesdrop on the Democratic candidate's aircraft and buses when his entourage used radio telephones. QUARTZ emulated the technique used by the Soviet Union for microwave interception of telephone traffic...
Grant Ireson, Stanford professor of industrial engineering and director of the study, said the United States has enough coal to supply all of the nation's energy needs for 400 years...
...cent icrease in coal production, coupled with a 6-per-cent increase in domestic oil production, could reduce current oil and gas imports by one-third, Ireson said...
STANFORD, Cal--A two-year study by more than 100 students and faculty members at Stanford University has concluded that American dependence on foreign oil will decline over the next 45 years and that coal will become the nation's primary source of energy...