Word: actioned
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Choices of Action. The U.S. must develop, and quickly, a policy demonstrating a will and commitment to remain involved in the crescent, and to use its power to protect its friends and vital interests there. Said Helms: "We're talking now about power politics, and since we are, let's not apologize for the fact; let's talk about it. We have all kinds of people who would be glad to know that the U.S. is in there and committed, and I think we would find, like a magnet, a whole lot of those filings coming toward...
Simes agreed that the Administration should initiate covert action rather than flaunt its power: "I think it is extremely important for the U.S. to learn to walk slowly...
...other areas, nor can we tolerate the Cubans of the Orient to go swashbuckling in Laos, Kampuchea or even in the Chinese border areas. Now some people in the world are afraid of offending them, even if they do something terrible. These people wouldn't dare take action against them." So said China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing last week, puffing on a Panda cigarette as he aimed an unmistakable rebuke at what Peking considers the jelly-bellied Western response to adventurism by the Soviets and their clients. Teng also gave the fullest explanation...
...Washington's tepid response to the Chinese invasion, the Soviet resentment of America's role in the crisis was superficially understandable, but not warranted by the facts. Moscow had been informed after Teng's visit about President Carter's efforts to dissuade him from any action in Viet Nam. In Soviet eyes, Carter's disapproval must have seemed too mild in the midst of the exciting new Chinese-American embrace. Moreover, Washington's current assurances that Sino-American normalization will continue despite the invasion, and Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal's unperturbed trip...
About the most that consuming governments have so far been able to manage by way of concerted action was a voluntary conservation agreement worked out last week during a two-day conference of the 20-nation International Energy Agency in Paris. The nations agreed to cut overall oil consumption by 5%, but because the U.S. uses so much, it pledged to reduce imports by 11%, or 1 million bbl. a day. The U.S. Department of Energy announced that it would meet that goal by relaxing controls on gasoline so that the retail price, which now averages some 70? for regular...