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...original opening to China and who continues to follow the relationship closely as president of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, says that there will probably be "no real rapprochement" between China and the Soviet Union. Nor is China's willingness to resume negotiations "a crude playing of the Soviet card to make us nervous." Says Lord: "The Chinese are modestly repositioning themselves and hedging while they see whether the U.S. can get its own act together...
...banners, papal portraits and flowers. As strikers in drab blue overalls and hard hats chanted slogans, Poles massed outside to cheer them on, tossing bouquets, cigarettes and food through the iron fence. Emboldened by the crowd, workers renamed the shipyard Solidarity, daubing the union's name in a crude graffiti scrawl across the bottom of huge white letters spelling LENIN on a sign above the entrance...
...Carter Administration, but sharply accelerated and expanded by Secretary James Watt. Watt's plan aims at opening a billion acres of the outer continental shelf to exploration during the next five years in the hope of finding oil that will make the U.S. less dependent on imported crude...
...with enough fuel to heat 4.5 million homes per day at peak capacity. Though the pipeline has been plagued by financing problems and construction start-up delays, it is seen by industry experts as an important complement to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, which carries 1.5 million bbl. of crude oil per day from Prudhoe Bay on the Beaufort Sea to the port of Valdez, 800 miles to the south. All together, the entire gas-pipeline network is aimed at ensuring adequate fuel supplies for industrial and home-heating use until the turn of the century and beyond...
...nation's pipeline-building boom began taking shape some seven years ago, when wintertime gas shortages were commonplace and crude-oil prices had skyrocketed. With the start of phased natural gas deregulation under the Carter Administration in 1978 and the subsequent creeping rise in price, the industry experienced a boom in exploration and drilling activity. Investment in large-scale pipeline development naturally followed close behind...