Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reminded of how angrily his leadership is being questioned at home, largely because of the energy crisis. Polls published while he was in Tokyo show him not only trailing Senator Edward Kennedy in popularity but losing to potential Republican challengers Ronald Reagan and Howard Baker as well. In fact, the President's overall approval rating?29%?is barely above the levels of Harry Truman and Richard Nixon at their lowest points...
...major element in the public anger was the fact that many gas stations have taken to closing on weekends, and for much of the week as well. These unscheduled and unpredictable closings (involving as many as 90% of stations in the New York City area) added considerably to drivers' anxiety about getting gas, and therefore to the wasteful practice of tank-topping-buying a few gallons to get a full tank. They also added to drivers' suspicion that the industry was manipulating them, their cars and their pocketbooks...
These may sound like Western news reports, but, in fact, they all described events in the Communist world last week. While President Carter met with leaders of six other industrial nations in Tokyo, the Soviet Union's Premier Aleksei Kosygin was conferring with the leaders of the ten nations in the Soviet-led Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON). The chief problem: Soviet oil production, the largest in the world and chief source of COMECON supply, has fallen 23 million bbl. over five months. Actually, Soviet production was supposed to increase by 154 million bbl. this year...
...Soviets be required to dismantle their 308 huge S59 and SS-18 missile launchers. Their firepower, said Baker, is "equal to all of our strategic ballistic missile systems put together." Drastic cuts actually had been suggested by Carter two years ago-and immediately ridiculed by the Soviets. In fact, the U.S. in the 1960s decided against building anything like the Soviets' SS-9s and SS-18s, which are liquid-fueled ICBMs, and developed instead the smaller and more accurate, solid-fueled Minuteman missiles. Moreover, the SALT I agreement, signed by President Nixon in 1972, and the Vladivostok agreement signed...
...other SALT issues, Baker was fuzzy in a way that suggested that he was trying to allow for the possibility of having to reverse field on the treaty. He criticized, for instance, the fact that the Soviet Backfire bomber was left out of the treaty. At the same time, he seemed to suggest that he might settle for some measure short of counting Backfire under SALT, such as a Senate resolution calling on the U.S. to develop an equivalent bomber, which would be permitted under the treaty. On balance, however, Baker was so adamant about opposing the agreement that...