Word: mideast
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...could avert an energy crisis, Yergin concedes--provided there is stability in the Mideast, accelerated development of alternate energy technology (i.e., synthetic fuels, nuclear, and solar), and substantial domestic conservation. However, because such prospects currently are more dream than impending reality, Yergin finds the problem too important to wait out with fingers crossed...
While cutting energy demand might be a key to reducing the threat of a crisis, Americans will still drive their cars and companies will still produce such energy intensive products as steel. In sum, we still need oil and, more generally, abundant energy. The Mideast is risky, as are Mexico, Venezuela, and Nigeria in the long-term. And domestic off-shore drilling threatens not to live up to its promise. So, do we need a crash program to develop synthetic fuels? Coal is plentiful, but is it clean enough to be the electricity of the future? Are nuclear power, fusion...
...debate over American nuclear arms policy cooled off somewhat while the White House scrambled to keep up with personnel problems in the State Department and the war in the Mideast. But at Harvard, there was action on two fronts in the drive to educate the public on questions of warheads and deterrence...
Most recently, the prime minister's outright rejection of President Reagan's Mideast initiative exasperated the increasing number of moderate Israelis who want to make compromises for peace. That plan includes full autonomy for the Palestinians and would prohibit future Israeli settlements in the contested West Bank and Gaza Strip, so Begin perceived it as a rejection of his own well-laid plans. Certainly the Reagan proposal has features that may territorially slight Israel. But Begin's swift rejection of the plan wholesale led some Israelis to criticize his "hard-headedness" as detrimental...
...debate over American nuclear arms policy cooled off somewhat while the White House scrambled to keep up with personnel problems in the State Department and the war in the Mideast. But at Harvard, there was action on two fronts in the drive to educate the public on questions of warheads and deterrence...