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...urged that both powers cease all nuclear testing for two or more years. If the Soviet Union insists on using nu clear explosives to divert a river in northern Russia as planned, Carter asked that U.S. experts be permitted to observe the project. The U.S., in turn, would allow Russians to watch any peaceful use of nuclear power for similar projects in the U.S., although none is planned. Apart from nuclear tests, Carter suggested that each side should notify the other in advance of any experimental missile launching. This would eliminate the danger that such a launching could be mistaken...
...when I entertain political ideas (which do not entertain me). This is bad enough. But I frown when I must mingle with these unwelcome guests; words impressed into public roles are stained with brutality, lose their invisibilities, and are no longer parts of the actual brain. So I must divert attention from my innocent poem; but then I am hopelessly confused how to accomplish my other purpose...
While some members of his staff grumbled that campaign money was far too scarce to divert $150,000 into a transition that might never take place, Carter simply told Watson to keep plowing ahead. Working 18-hour days behind his glass desk in Atlanta, Watson had personally interviewed and selected a team of 18 coordinators, most of them in their 30s, to collect the best ideas and judgments they could from top persons around the country. Watson visited with hundreds of top sources: former Cabinet officers, White House staffers, heads of the country's large foundations...
Industrial nations with faltering economies-especially Britain and Italy -and all the developing countries would be much harder hit. To pay their oil bills, they might well have to divert money from productive investments, thus increasing inflationary pressures and hurting their efforts to reduce unemployment. The psychological shock could be serious too. Says Economist Paul H. Frankel of London's Petroleum Economics Ltd.: "It is not at all certain that the world recovery is fully established. If the global economy is beginning to move down instead of up, OPEC'S price rise could be a critical factor aggravating...
...Japan, West Germany, France and Britain-opposed the fund proposal. Instead, they offered to negotiate commodity agreements on a case-by-case basis, then to discuss stockpile financing plans at a later date. In the absence of agreements on individual commodities, they argued, the Common Fund would needlessly divert development money from worthy projects. But the Group of 77 refused to budge. "We have been trying the com-modity-by-commodity approach for so many years," complained Widjojo Nitisastro, Indonesia's Minister of State for Economic, Financial and Industrial Affairs. "We must have the Common Fund as a catalyst...