Word: problems
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...problem is complicated by developments on the supply side--that is the second relatively "new" element. Large oil price increases--a quadrupling between 1972 and 1975 and a doubling in 1979--cause a speed-up in the Consumer Price Index that in turn tends to trigger larger wage increases; the core rate of wage-price inflation is ratcheted up to a higher level. One-shot oil price increases will tend permanently to increase the underlying rate of inflation...
...1980s, a doubling of the real price of oil by 1990 would not be a surprise. (Indeed, we might face much worse trouble than that. Serious political troubles in the Persian Gulf area could cause large non-commercial cut-backs in supplies. That would pose a "national security" problem, of a major sort of us, the European countries, Japan, and other countries as well...
...Khomeini-inspired anti-Americanism in the Middle East. The best way :o do that would be to mediate successfully the Egyptian-Israeli peace negotiations, to ensure that they will lead to genuine autonomy for the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza. The degree to which the Palestinian problem has inGaza. The degree to which the Palestinian problem has inflamed passions even among Arabs who consider themselves pro-U.S. is not at all understood by Americans. Says Faisal Alhegelan, Saudi Ambassador to the U.S.: "All you have to do is grant the right of Palestinian self-determination...
...that power be brought to bear against an opponent immune to the usual forms of diplomatic, economic and even military pressure, and how can it be refined to deal with others in the Third World who might rise to follow Khomeini's example? That may be the central problem for U.S. foreign policy throughout the 1980s...
...well. We know that we can resist it and defend our honor. We have proved that we can resist its great injustice?harboring the Shah. We shall overpower America. We shall defeat it in the whole region. The [departure of the] Shah from the U.S. will not solve the problem. An international organization should make serious efforts to convince the U.S. to extradite the Shah to Iran. This organization should return all the wealth the Shah has plundered to its rightful owners?the people of Iran. Such an organization should also try all dictators. We will not surrender to injustice...