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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the wisdom of hindsight, particularly now that the deadline for deployment is near, the alliance's decision in 1979 to pursue simultaneously disarmament and rearmament looks too clever by half. The leverage of the U.S. in the talks would always depend on the credibility of a threat that could be carried out only with the continued support of perishable governments and volatile public opinion in the five West European countries where the new missiles were supposed to be based...
That seems unlikely, but much may depend on how convincing a case CIA Director William Casey and other intelligence officials can make to congressional intelligence committees at closed-door hearings this week. Presumably they will repeat an argument that several Administration officials began making privately to newsmen last week. What counts, the officials maintained, is not the intentions of the contras but those of the U.S. And the contras' hope of overthrowing the Sandinista government is a delusion of grandeur; they lack the numbers, training and equipment to do it. All they can accomplish is to harass the Nicaraguan...
...spill endangers marine life as well as industrial installations along the shoreline. The gravest threat is to the huge desalination plants that Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the other arid nations depend on for their drinking water. From Saudi Arabia to the Straits of Hormuz last week, armies of workmen were ringing the shore with floating plastic booms designed to protect the plants' intake valves. Meanwhile, panicky shoppers in Qatar went on a hoarding spree, pushing the price of bottled mineral water to almost $1 a liter-more than five times the OPEC price for crude oil. Officials from Iran...
...battle is still going in Arco's favor. The company increased its market share last year from 3.8% to 4.8%, pushing past Chevron into seventh place among the major refiners. Some of Arco's gains have come at the expense of independent dealers who depend on the majors for their gasoline. An owner of independent gas stations in Massachusetts claims that price competition from Arco and British Petroleum (brand name: BP) has forced him to sell gas below cost. Even at that, he says, his retail price of $1.07 per gal. is still 4? above the price charged...
...miles southwest of Florida, on the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains. The cash-crop cultivation of coca is divided primarily between Bolivia (86,000 acres) and Peru (123,000 acres). The DEA, which has five agents in each country, estimates that 23,000 Bolivian peasant families depend on coca for their livelihoods, and that the crop generates nearly $1 billion a year for Peru, where the entire national budget is just over $5 billion. But the business is controlled by Colombians. All but a small fraction of cocaine headed for the U.S. comes first to Colombia, generally...