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...Saudi Arabia and Algerian President Houari Boumedienne quite naturally decry the idea of U.S. interposition in the Middle East because of oil. Just as naturally, U.S. strategists charged with providing responses to any conceivable politico-military situation are weighing alternatives for intervention in the event of a strangling oil embargo. Two such experts with access to the thinking of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have pieced together a composite of these alternatives and filtered it out to other analysts. The composite represents high-level rumination rather than a final, actual blueprint. But it is couched in considerable detail and shows...
...composite contingency plan assumes a cutoff in oil to the West because of another Middle East war, an Arab oil embargo and a White House command to the U.S. military to lift the embargo. At this order, two massive U.S. strike groups would get under way. One would move through the Strait of Malacca, across the Indian Ocean and into the Persian Gulf. It would include carriers whose jets would secure air control, and ships carrying at least a division of Marines (15,000 men). The second force would include two brigades of the 82nd Airborne Division...
Generally, Americans were shocked at the prospect of gas rationing when it loomed for a time during the Arab oil embargo a year ago. But one recent poll indicates that slightly more than half of the U.S. population would now accept rationing if it were the only alternative to Ford's price plan. It is as yet unclear what kind of national constituency would back the Senate bill, introduced last week by Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana and Republican Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, that mandates a nationwide rationing program "within 60 days." (Ford announced that he would...
...FAMILIAR. The U.S. had gas rationing for 3½ years during World War II. The Government already has 4.8 billion ration coupons, printed during the Arab oil embargo and usable at any time, stashed in five locations around the country. The coupons would be sufficient to last for three months...
...televised White House interview with NBC, the President ignored an opportunity to deny rumors that the U.S. was training a force for desert fighting in the event of another oil embargo. "I don't think that I ought to talk about any particular military contingency plans," Ford said, thus giving some substance to rumors that three special divisions were being organized for this purpose. The Pentagon admits that three divisions are being created by using formerly chairborne soldiers, but denies that they are intended for any such specific duty...