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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...recent Soviet military buildup turns out to be a bluff. With no sign of easing tensions, Western analysts revised their initially optimistic estimates of an earlier East bloc summit in Moscow. At that meeting Party Boss Stanislaw Kania may not have got a reprieve, as first thought. Instead, he was apparently read the riot act: either revive the party and get the country moving again-or else. "These talks were very difficult," a well-informed Polish journalist told TIME last week. "From our side there were no guarantees, and from our partners there was a notable lack of confidence...
...people turned out to greet him. Missing were the throngs who, during his 1973 visit, bore placards with sentiments like WELCOME BACK COMRADE BREZHNEV - TRUE FRIEND OF INDIA. The ailing 73-year-old Soviet leader, who had difficulty in walking unassisted, also experienced problems in reaching his residence. Instead of a triumphal motorcade, police had to whisk the Soviet leader through the back streets of the capital to avoid demonstrations by Afghan refugees carrying banners that read CRIMINAL BREZHNEV...
...want or expect to get elected," he insists, "but I want enough votes for all hell to break loose. Ideally, I'd like to create enough of a mess to provoke a crisis. What France really needs is a new constitution that distributes power more evenly instead of making the President a virtual monarch." That point has been seriously argued by some pundits. A few more such remarks and Coluche could begin sounding like a real politician...
Though OPEC seems invariably to profit from the suffering of its customers, the organization has hardly engineered the crisis from which it is benefiting. Instead, the group has merely been a catalyst, if a particularly jarring one, for economic changes that were bound to come. Petroleum prices have been going up because worldwide demand for oil has been increasing relentlessly while supplies have fallen. The cartel's policies have been designed to exploit the opportunity and earn a higher profit from petroleum sales...
Halbouty's task force wrote a report on energy that was sent to Reagan the day after the election. It charged that the Carter energy program was designed to impede production and curtail consumption. Said the report: "Instead of unleashing the resources of a wealthy nation, we have, in the name of saving energy for some unspecified future time, tucked energy away like a rare bottle of wine." The Halbouty study contended that the U.S. can produce as much oil and gas in the future as it has in its entire history. The report claimed that there is more...