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Until those alternative technologies can fulfill their promise, however, the U.S. must continue to rely on conventional fuels-and to confront the problems that their procurement and use entail. As the environmental movement demonstrated, how fast and effectively the nation faces up to those problems depends largely on public awareness that an energy crisis exists; it was only after the air and waters had become dangerously polluted that the public awoke and demanded the steps that are now gradually beginning to turn the tide of pollution. The U.S. may have even less time to make important decisions about energy. When...
Nixon's own party demanded that the President take drastic action to right the sinking ship. It appears Nixon, the man who has faced so many crises in his political career, now must confront his most difficult crisis...
...underlying principle, the Vice President said, is the right of the accused to confront their accusors...
Ithaca, N.Y., is the wrong place to look for lacrosse victories around the Ivy League, but the Crimson stickmen, still searching for their first triumph, will journey there today to confront Ivy powerhouse Cornell...
Both India and Pakistan are faced with the problem of political splinter groups advocating territorial secession, while Bangladesh must confront the economic problems of an emerging Third World nation...