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Hunter College Professor John G. Stoessinger in his book Crusaders & Pragmatists focused attention earlier this year on "the human element in American foreign policy." He was back last week pointing out that "the President holds our future in his hands. His personality may be our destiny...
...already been beefed up by at least 50 members of Panama's guardia. So far, the Shah has ventured out rarely, but when he goes out for the simplest of reasons, so goes the entourage: when he walked his Great Dane on the island's main beach last week, ten security men walked with hun and a red sedan filled with more guards drove behind. It is a measure of the Shah's exile that in those circumstances any place can feel like home...
...Department one of the planners says the U.S. is now "shadow dancing" with the world, changing military budgets, talking tough with allies, all as part of the plan to reach into the mind of the Ayatullah Khomeini and go even farther-to the Kremlin. The experts believe that at last a spell is being cast beyond the White House, establishing the belief that Jimmy Carter, a reluctant dragon, could indeed bring himself to order fellow Americans into battle...
...already suffering increasing economic upset from energy inflation, and now the malaise will worsen. According to Administration calculations, the cost of crude oil imported into the U.S., which last month averaged $25 per bbl., will rise to from $28 to $30. Several of the nation's most important OPEC suppliers, including Nigeria and Libya, are also among those that lifted their prices the most...
...retail price of a gallon of gasoline in the coming weeks, and 3? to 7? to the cost of home heating oil, a major expense for consumers in the import-dependent Northeast. Several of the largest oil companies, including Exxon, Mobil, Chevron and Texaco, last week announced wholesale gasoline price increases of 6? to 10? per gal. This signals further sharp rises at the pump in the weeks ahead for motorists, who are already paying an average nationwide price of about...