Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...1980s approach, what kind of CIA can?and should?the nation have? To hear Turner and other intelligence authorities, the agency will be smaller, with more sharply focused analysis, and with covert operations scaled down and sparingly used...
...Last year the CIA issued a detailed report predicting that the nation's most productive wells, notably the huge Samotlor field and those along the Urals (see map), would soon be drying up. Thus, concluded the CIA, the Soviets will become net importers of oil by the mid-1980s. Reason: they are pumping too much too fast and do not possess the technology needed to bring in new wells in the forbidding climes of the Arctic Circle and Bering Sea. Says Energy Secretary James Schlesinger: "If anything, the CIA report was optimistic...
...which has had no astronauts in space since 1975, will be able to put together its own sausages when the space shuttle that is now being tested begins regular flights in the 1980s. But for the Soviets the feat is something of a breakthrough. While the U.S. showed it could dock spacecraft as long ago as the pre-moon shot Gemini 8 flight in 1966, the delicate skills required to bring together two space ships, both of which are traveling at speeds of 29.000 k.p.h. (18,000 m.p.h.), have often eluded the Soviets. (One explanation: they insist on controlling...
...basic fact of modern oil diplomacy: the U.S. vitally needs Riyadh's continued cooperation. To help the U.S. meet its future energy needs, Washington has urged the Saudis to increase their productive capacity from 11.6 million bbl. per day to 16 million bbl. by the early 1980s. The Saudis can thus exert pressure simply by limiting production...
...source of the bonanza is North Sea oil. By the end of 1977, taxes and royalties on it will have brought the government a trifling $9.5 million. But during 1978 and 1979, the government's take will multiply a thousand times, and by the mid-1980s Whitehall's share will be running at $6.7 billion a year...