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...Germany, which at first regarded the shortage with hearty optimism, has taken a second look and clamped on unofficial rationing by cutting gasoline and fuel-oil deliveries by up to 20%. Despite earlier reports of big reserves, Germany's actual crude oil in storage probably totals no more than one month's supply; some steelmakers, iron foundries, chemical and glass firms have only enough for two weeks' production...
...chief fear was not the war of "rocket weapons" and other "modern and terrible means" that Russian Premier Nikolai Bulganin threatened against Great Britain and France (TIME, Nov. 12). This was taken to be crude and nasty propaganda. The fear was of a limited war in the Middle East, of the kind Soviet Russia likes: perhaps without any Russian soldiers, but instigated and supplied by the Russians...
...jungle, to the ''People Inside" (the Communists), and fight for justice. Or to go to Communist China "to give their strength and enthusiasm" to "the newest America, the earth's old country, the ancestor's land." Author Han Suyin is not so crude as to line up on the Communist side herself, but most of the native characters who are decent and serious are sympathetic to the People Inside; the despicable ones are antiCommunist, usually for despicable reasons. The whites are divided just as clearly: the thickheaded colonials who don't know the score...
...surprised those who fail to recognize that the disagreement among Communists is over which "road to socialism" to take, not whether to travel there. The Titos and the Gomulkas believe, in fact, that their Communism is purer and surer than the Kremlin's. To them Khrushchev & Co. are crude bunglers. But open rebellion is something to link them all in mutual alarm...
...needs under any circumstances. Says Otis H. Ellis, general counsel of the National Oil Jobbers Council: "We constantly hear that 'there is no security in foreign oil. A more appropriate slogan would be,"There is no security without foreign oil." " With one-seventh of the world's crude-oil reserves, the U.S. consumes 9,000,000 bbls. of oil daily, well over 50% of the world's production. The Chase Manhattan Bank predicts that U.S. oil demand will rise another 53% in the next decade, to some 12.8 million bbls. daily. Yet estimates are that domestic production...