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Looking Ahead: Our vulnerability to OPEC imports in the year 2000 will depend on whether or not we very soon develop the national will and public policies that will permit us to do what's essential: to go after the energy in the U.S. There is still as much oil to be discovered in this country as has been produced in our entire history. But it takes money, it takes time, and it takes the freedom to go look...
...most other countries, success in the Soviet Union can depend on family and personal connections. With the right contacts, one has a lot less trouble getting into a top school, landing a good job and winning advancement. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev's elder son Yuri, for example, was named First Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade last year at the relatively tender age of 47. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's son Anatoli, 48, was appointed director of the African Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1976. Influence peddling-called blat in Russian-prevails at all levels...
...Congress is willing to prescribe ambitious remedies, most experts generally believe that the AVF is salvageable. But General Meyer warned a House Armed Services subcommittee last week that without "an adequately resourced all-volunteer force," it might become necessary "to go to the draft." Nearly all America's allies depend on conscription, a system that would have several advantages for the U.S. For one thing, the Pentagon's raw manpower supply would be assured. For another, U.S. history has shown that the very existence of the draft has produced more high-quality volunteers for all of the services. A draft...
Nunn: The question is not really who is overrepresented in the military but rather who is not serving in the military. I think that the middle class and upper middle class of America also have a duty to defend this country. When you depend more and more on lower economic groups to enlist in the services, you are setting the stage for a gradual deterioration of patriotism...
Whether those decisions are in fact revised may depend on the effectiveness of various Soviet inducements. A free team ride to Moscow on the Soviet airline Aeroflot was sufficient to reverse the no-go decision of the cash-strapped Costa Rican Olympic Committee. Thailand, on the other hand, was offered only a 50% discount on Aeroflot in exchange for altering its plan to stay home. No thanks, said the Thais, who, along with other non-Communist Southeast Asian nations, are supporting the boycott. Jordan, which is sending a team to Moscow, was reportedly promised a visit by the Bolshoi Ballet...