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Both defense and prosecution predict a trial of perhaps a month's duration that could depend on a determination of the age at which a fetus becomes a human being and on considerations of medical ethics and complicated surgical procedures...
...depend on Middle East oil, above all from the country that has most of it: Saudi Arabia...
Nations that depend even more on OPEC fared much worse than the U.S. Japan's $18 billion bill for oil imports was the biggest single factor in lifting its inflation rate to a punishing 24%, causing the first real postwar decline in economic growth. Inflation rates doubled in many Western European nations: to 16% in France and Belgium, 18% in Britain, 25% in Italy. To meet its trade deficit, Italy has borrowed more than $13 billion, incurring interest payments of nearly $1 billion a year. Prime Minister Harold Wilson says that the fivefold increase in oil prices aggravated Britain...
...lands, making imperative a conference between governments of oil-burning nations and those of oil-pumping nations. U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has proposed a meeting of industrialized and oil-producing nations; French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing wants to include underdeveloped countries that also depend on oil. The producers now appear to favor the Giscard d'Estaing proposal. In preparation for such a gathering, the OPEC delegates in Vienna last week voted to meet next month in Algiers to set up a Summit which will consider proposals. They are likely to include the idea...
...most levelheaded owners and associates of pets, whom they see as fraternal, adventurous and fallible allies, incapable (unlike parents) of scolding or punishing. As Freud noted in Totem and Taboo, children "feel themselves more akin to animals than to their elders." Old people, particularly those living alone, often depend on pets for the companionship and warmth denied them by human society. Some behaviorists argue that the mentally disturbed can be helped by animals -"seeing-heart dogs," in one psychologist's phrase-to relate to reality...