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...reason Iranian exports no longer count for so much is that the Khomeini regime has pushed up petroleum prices so high that customers have ceased their pay-any-price scramble for Iranian supplies. The leader of the rush last autumn was Japan, which was willing to pay as much as $40 per bbl. But by last week Japan had bulging oil stockpiles, and the country refused Iran's latest asking price of $35 per bbl. for long-term supply contracts. Iran immediately cut off all energy shipments to Japan, which now joins the U.S. and Portugal on Tehran...
...departments and agencies have policy study groups that range from a handful to 200 or more businessmen, scientists, lawyers, journalists, farmers and others. Usually, the outside advisers approve departmental actions, but sometimes policy initiatives are scrapped. Example: to help close a fiscal 1980 budget deficit, the Finance Ministry last autumn recommended a corporate tax increase. It was shelved when businessmen on the ministry's Tax System Deliberation Council convincingly argued that the move would stifle growth...
...term prices will remain firm, and even nudge up. The latest to institute the price-propping cuts are Kuwait and Libya, which last week reduced their production by 25% and 17%, respectively, bringing the overall drop in OPEC'S output to 2 million bbl. per day below the autumn 1979 level of 31 million bbl. daily. Some price hikes continue nonetheless. Algeria has put a $3-per-bbl. surcharge on its crude, euphemistically calling it a "down payment against future explorations...
FROM THE POCKETS of property taxpayers will come the dollars needed to keep the cuts in services fairly shallow this year. But a new constraint on services threatens. Tax bills are mailed out in the fall; and two weeks later another autumn event, statewide elections, will offer taxpayers the chance for a California-style tax revolt. "People can't vote to decrease their grocery bills or the amount of money they pay for heat," Duehay said recently. "I'm afraid that coming on the heels of this tax increase, voters may be in a very receptive mood for tax-cutting...
Even if Carter wins the nomination, a noisy and acrimonious campaign by Kennedy may cost him dearly in an autumn battle against Ronald Reagan, who last week was endorsed by John Connally and continued to coast smoothly toward the Republican nomination. Reagan supporters easily won most of the delegate contests in New York, and he ran a strong second to George Bush in Connecticut. In all, Reagan took 87 of the 158 delegates at stake, giving him 293 of the 998 votes needed for a first-ballot nomination at the Republican National Convention in July...