Word: dangering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Revolution in Iran. A souring of the important U.S. special relationship with Saudi Arabia. A looming economic crisis, and soon, caused by oil shortages and runaway price boosts. A danger that much of the region might change its tilt away from the U.S. and toward the Soviet Union. A Middle East peace seemingly more elusive than ever. These are the troubles and threats that America faces in the so-called crescent of crisis-that great swath of countries running from the Horn of Africa through Egypt and across the Middle East to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Here, more than...
...much for the good news. Even as the supply shortage begins to look somewhat less menacing, the familiar and appalling threat is looming of yet another price rampage by the other members of the 13-nation OPEC cartel. Now as in 1973-74, the danger is that rocketing fuel prices will aggravate inflation, force governments to fight back by clamping down on domestic growth, and for the second time in a decade plunge the world economy into an oil-greased slide...
...this waffling is immensely frustrating for Energy Secretary James Schlesinger. For the past two years he has urged conservation steps; Congressmen have done little more than nod politely. The present squeeze, Schlesinger argues, "is a warning, but the real danger is in the long run. We must take advantage of short-term crises to try to make fundamental long-term changes...
...accomplish revolutionary goals no matter what the cost in blood. This horror often engenders a Thermidorean reaction (named for Thermidor, the month of the French revolutionary calendar in which the reaction occurred), when moderates regain control and the nation begins a period of convalescence. But ahead lies the danger of the fifth stage: the coming of a dictator still fired by some revolutionary zeal, and beyond that, the possibility, of a Bourbonism restored...
...network. Nor is it accidental that Rep. Lionel Van Deerlin (D-Cal.), who chairs the House Communications Subcommittee, had his funding proposals incorporated into the Carnegie plan. But the report is flawed by an almost-embarassing literary and political naivete. At one point the commission says it "recognizes the danger of lapsing into fuzzy-minded ecstacy over the umlimited social potential of the new electronic technology." But in a particularly nauseating passage electronic media are described as "magnificent electronic extensions of ourselves which can teach, and heal and inspire, if we use them not for the ruthless pursuit...