Word: embargos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State of Israel. Let America give Israel whatever she wants, provided she remains content with her borders. This will never affect our relationship with the United States in any way. We, as her friends, care about her interests. An example to hand is our decision to lift the oil embargo when we realized it began to affect the interests of the American people...
...national energy plan calls importation of LNG an "important supply option," and the Department of Energy has been approving import projects, officials have serious doubts about the strategic wisdom of allowing too many American consumers to become dependent on the stuff, lest LNG be included in another oil embargo. They are hardly encouraged by the fact that the principal U.S. supplier will be Algeria, one of the most hawkish of the OPEC countries and a nation ruled by a left-wing government that is anything but an ally of the U.S. in foreign policy. Says one senior Energy Department official...
...Connally's younger brother and former campaign manager is sitting pretty. After landing two movie roles, including a bit part in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the cattleman has turned novelist. The hero is a retired Texas politician summoned to Washington to cope with an Arab oil embargo in the year 1980. Who could it be? Well, drawls Merrill, 57, "you might say the character is a lot like someone I've known all my life...
...idea seems to have caught on almost overnight. In 1973, before the Arab oil embargo shook the Western economies, there were only two small "resource recovery" plants in the U.S. processing garbage into energy. Today 16 full-fledged plants are in operation using varied technologies, another twelve are under construction, and many more are in different stages of planning. The latest and largest municipality to join the switch to garbage power is New York City, which in December announced that it was negotiating with Manhattan-based Ashmont Systems to build a plant on the grounds of the former Brooklyn Navy...
Henry Kissinger's triumphs have had one father. His one unmitigated debacle is an orphan. It was the Cyprus crisis of 1974, a chain of coup, invasion, countercoup and embargo that left the southern flank of NATO in chaos and U.S. prestige in the Eastern Mediterranean at an ebb. Laurence Stern, a veteran reporter on national security for the Washington Post, has written a compact and compelling account of the affair. He traces U.S. policy from the Truman Doctrine of 1947 to Clark Clifford's inconclusive mediation mission earlier this year, but he concentrates on the American missteps...