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Having gone out of his way earlier in the week to buttress Vance's position, he now came to Brzezinski's defense. "It is certainly not right," he told the Texans, "for the Soviet Union and Cuba to jump on Dr. Brzezinski when I am the one who shapes the policy after getting advice from him and others...
...radio preacher, Garner Ted Armstrong specializes in glib moralism and biblical analysis used to buttress his apocalyptic commentary on current events. On The World Tomorrow he claims to reach an audience of 30 million. Many of his listeners become contributors and converts to the show's never-mentioned sponsor, the Worldwide Church of God, which regards itself as the "True Church" re-established by the Deity in 1933 to prepare for the end of the world...
...basis of the claim that U.S. investments in South Africa are insignificant (a claim, incidentally, which it never attempts to buttress with theoretical or empirical evidence, the Corporation says withdrawal of U.S. companies will be ineffective. This completely ignores the strategic and political significance of U.S. investments...
...buttress the case for his own scheme-and against the oil industry's proposals-the President threw out some dramatic figures during his press conference. He said that in 1973, just before OPEC imposed its oil embargo and sharply raised prices, U.S. oil and gas companies had an income of $18 billion. Under his proposal, Carter said, that figure would rise to $100 billion by 1985-"an enormous increase." But, he said, the oil and gas companies are demanding legislation that would yield $150 billion in revenues by the same year. That $50 billion difference, Carter insisted, "will come...
...drilling sites in the Baltimore Canyon until a fuller ecological study is completed, and Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus is holding off on other leases. Meanwhile, the blowout on the Phillips Petroleum rig in Norway's Ekofisk field in the North Sea (see ENVIRONMENT) is certain to buttress environmentalists' arguments about the dangers of offshore drilling...