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Moscow was quick to deny any such ambitions. Stories of Soviet intervention in Yugoslavia, complained TASS last week, were "crude and provocative." But with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan fresh in everybody's mind, the disclaimers initially rang a bit hollow. Mysterious troop movements in Eastern Europe gave rise to rumors that the Soviets were mobilizing in preparation for Tito's death. The U.S.S.R. has 31 divisions in Eastern Europe: four are stationed in Hungary, with which Yugoslavia shares a common border. At week's end, however, Washington officials were satisfied that the troop movements involved routine...
...time to put energy on the back burner. Yet just when Jimmy Carter should be pushing hardest to cut consumption and conserve supplies, he seems to be taking a surprisingly soft approach. Not only has the Administration shelved plans to levy a $5 per bbl. tariff on foreign crude, but it has also backed off from calling for a steep new gasoline tax of perhaps 50? a gal. The tax had been urged by John Sawhill, Deputy Secretary of Energy, and supported by Treasury Secretary G. William Miller, Chief Presidential Economist Charles Schultze and James Mclntyre, Director of the Office...
...Brittany?Emile Bernard, Maurice Denis, Paul S�rusier and others?can only be enriched by seeing how their more traditional contemporaries dealt with the same subjects of Breton life. Brittany pervaded the salons of the 1880s. Its landscape of tight villages, stony shorelines, near primitive Christian rituals and crude effigies was visited by artist after artist, in the hope of finding not only good local color for genre scenes but plenty of metaphysical symbolism as well. "Atheist that I was," Bernard wrote of Brittany, "it made of me a saint. It was this Gothic Brittany which initiated...
...wanting to miss any big-new-story bases, Forsyth throws in the maiden voyage of the world's biggest oil tanker, the Freya, hauling one million barrels of crude into Rotterdam. Anyone who has ever read a book or seen a movie knows as soon as you hear "maiden voyage," you better reserve a seat on the lifeboat. The ship and the Kremlin and the Ukranians and the White House all begin high-speed confrontations and near confrontations as Forsyth builds the tension. Which he does brilliantly. He spends several paragraphs in each location and uses almost cinematic cuts, back...
...Sultanate of Oman through which most of it passes, acquires a stranglehold on the world's economy. The U.S.S.R. today is self-sufficient in oil, but it could well become a major net importer in the 1980s?and thus be in direct competition with the West for the crude pumped out of the desert sands. The warm-water ports so ardently desired by the Czars since the 18th century retain almost as much importance today. Soviet missile-firing submarines, for example, now have to leave the ice-locked areas around Murmansk and Archangel through narrow channels where they can easily...