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That statement indicates not naiveté but subtle strategy. The Arabs fully appreciate that Rotterdam is the critical conduit for oil to Northern Europe. By singling out the Dutch, they are able to menace all of Europe while officially punishing only one nation. By allowing the continued-though significantly reduced-flow of oil through the Dutch port, they prevent total European collapse (which they do not want) while gaining more efficient control over that flow than if they had to track down where each barrel of their oil is going. Just as easily as they wink at the subterfuge, they...
...hopes to expand its audience by getting the Advertising Council, which serves as a conduit for public service ads on major broadcast networks, to accept some of its promotions for placement. Despite low salaries, PIC staffers remain enthusiastic about their work. Says Stermer: "It beats hell out of selling soap...
...more than six months public broadcasting has been embattled by an attempt by the Nixon Administration to gain veto power over all programs. The Administration's instrument has been the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, an independent Government board that used to be little more than a conduit for the limited federal funds devoted to public TV. But after Nixon appointees gained a majority on the board last fall, the CPB suddenly took on a new purpose. It not only withheld funds for many public-affairs programs but also demanded the power to kill privately financed programs that would...
...could go directly to the White House. In turn, Butz will pass along his decision to John Ehrlichman, Domestic Affairs chief in the White House. "I will be considerably less involved in the actual policy promulgation," Ehrlichman explains, "and my role will be increasingly ministerial, as literally a conduit for passing along messages and documents and things of that kind...
...those places." Since then he has tried a few mediums, but found "all that crystal-ball stuff, spirit guides, music and the darkened rooms" hard to take. Recently, though, he discovered Jane Roberts, a poet and science-fiction writer, who since 1963 has been a conduit for the spoken words of a personality called Seth. "It's all done in daylight," says