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...loss of Iraq's supplies is more serious. Exports averaged more than 3.2 million bbl. a day, representing 11% of OPEC's total, the biggest production after Saudi Arabia's. The major victims of the cutoff now will be Brazil, which has depended on Iraq for 45% of its oil needs, Japan (30%) and France (23%). With the noncombatant OPEC nations probably making up the shortfall, there may be some scrambling for supplies, but it still should not be too difficult for consumers to buy all they need...
...defense of the need for privacy in evaluating candidates: "Words written with the likelihood of publicity are likely to be bland and noncommittal and nonspecific." Last month, Labor Secretary Ray Marshall overruled Schneider's finding and ordered Berkeley to deliver the documents in 30 days or face a cutoff of federal contracts totaling roughly $25 million yearly...
...warning about the Strait of Hormuz is an attempt to prevent the fighting from escalating to the point where it would affect a vital international interest. Sixty percent of the world's oil flows through the strait, and its cutoff would leave homes without heating oil and factories without fuel throughout the western world. Oil supplies are not a mere "phantom" of national security. The United States has only a six-week emergency supply of oil, and it would certainly take much longer for alternative energy sources and conservation to eliminate the shortage that blockage of the Strait would entail...
When MR&A checked with Department of Energy officials in Washington, it found that no one ever mentioned such a doomsday scenario. Apparently, the Energy Department had not made contingency plans for a total oil cutoff. MR&A would find it difficult to model a catastrophe...
...class, a bilingual program must be provided. Because the Spanish programs have been taught longer, Hispanics do reasonably well. Programs for newer ethnic groups-among them some 10,000 Japanese, 10,000 Chinese and 10,000 Filipinos-have been less effective. Last June an amendment calling for a total cutoff of bilingual funding passed the Illinois house but was rejected by the state senate...