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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should help the oil producers build up their own agriculture and industries Faisal notes, for example, that his rich country badly needs industrialization. To help prepare the producers for the day, however distant, when their oil runs out, the West should also join them in developing alternative forms of en ergy and should send technology and experts to OPEC countries. Fast development is inevitable in the oil countries, and it will help work off their surpluses by spurring their imports. For their part, OPEC members may lend or invest some of the huge sums of capital that oil importers will...
...years since has come to know most of its more important leaders, was granted a rare interview with King Faisal. It was not the first meeting between the two: Wynn once interviewed the future King in Cairo in 1947 when Faisal, then his father's Foreign Minister, was en route to New York for the United Nations session that eventually partitioned Palestine. No matter the longevity of the relationship, Wynn noted wryly in a cable from Jeddah, there was no special favor this time. The interview, from the King's point of view at least, was handled routinely...
...gold mystique has never tak en hold in the U.S. For one thing, there was precious little of it around in the nation's early days: almost 90% of the known world gold supply of 80,000 tons has been produced in only the last century. Even in the pre-Revolutionary period, when most of the major countries were still relying on metal currency, the colonists were widely circulating paper money of one kind or another to meet the needs of their growing commerce...
...Americans stare at a naked can vas painted by the artist Future, we can envision a war between the Arabs and the Israelis any time within the next few years. After the war begins, we can en vision the Arabs once again cutting off America's oil supply. We can visualize Americans growing cold living in their poorly heated houses and standing on corners waiting for streetcars...
When the Communists took over in 1949, there were roughly 4 million Roman Catholics and Protestant Christians in China, 13,000 missionaries, and a widespread Christian influence in schools and universities. In a 1950 speech, Premier Chou En-lai promised religious freedom, and the country's 1954 constitution guaranteed it. Faith, nevertheless, soon became heavily politicized. Chinese Christians were cut off from foreign-mission boards and, in the case of Catholics, from Rome...