Word: problems
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...warships, including two aircraft carriers, in the Indian Ocean. But their planes can be used only for lightning strikes. Pentagon officials admit that the U.S. would require at least a month of preparation before landing units that could fight for any length of time. The problem is primarily one of supply. The troops could be moved in quickly, but the U.S. lacks the ships or the planes to deliver all the equipment required by a modern army: from tanks and trucks to food and fuel...
...approaches to solving the hostage crisis in Tehran; he took a step in this direction last week by urging Iran to recognize the Soviet Union as by far its greatest threat. To win respect and influence throughout the Muslim world, he could lean on Israel to settle the Palestinian problem. He also could push harder for American energy independence, which would free the U.S. from OPEC blackmail. At the same time, he could plan on eventually resuming his campaign for Senate approval of the SALT II pact, for stabilization of the superpowers' strategic capabilities would benefit the U.S. as well...
...Carter also blamed imported oil for much of the U.S.'s inflation problem. Three days earlier, on NBC's Meet the Press, he had claimed that "all the increases [in prices] for practical purposes of inflation rates since I have been in office have been directly attributable to increases in OPEC oil prices." It was a stunning misstatement, which he corrected in his State of the Union address, in which he accurately described OPEC's price hikes as "the single biggest factor in the inflation rate last year." Carter's chief inflation fighter, Alfred Kahn, told a congressional committee last...
...only is the problem not being solved, Jordan declared, but the efforts to solve it are fading. Said he: "The nation's energies are being focused on inflation, energy and defense to the neglect of racial equality, full employment and urban revitalization." The prevailing philosophy, he added, has become one of, "He who has keeps, and he who has not doesn...
...hearing on one such resolution, the Olympic committee was thoroughly on the defensive. The president of the U.S. Olympic Committee, Robert J. Kane, a former sprinter at Cornell and longtime athletic director at the university, found little support as he testified against the ban. "We do have a problem to face if we're out there alone, swaying in the wind," he argued. "If we are the only nation not to appear in the Games, what good would this do?" Asked about the 1936 Olympics, which had been cited as a propaganda triumph for Adolf Hitler that Soviet leaders...