Word: fears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ground each day, 2 million bbl. more than last year, but still 2 million bbl. less than nations want to buy in order to keep their factories humming. The shortage has set off a scramble that permits OPEC to charge almost any price its members wish; some U.S. officials fear that the cartel will ram through yet another 15% increase by year's end. The only way to head it off, say government leaders around the world (including OPEC leaders), is for the oil-importing nations to cut their consumption by 2 million bbl. a day. That would bring supply...
Malaysia insists, fairly enough, that it simply cannot afford to take care of so many exiles. Beyond that, the Malaysians fear that the refugees from Viet Nam-most of whom are ethnic Chinese-would remain permanently, thereby upsetting a delicate balance between the predominant Malay community and the Chinese and Indians who make up nearly half the population. Even if all that is true, Malaysia has no right to try to solve the problems of the refugees by drowning them...
...pieced together the Pakistani buying spree and reached the conclusion that Islamabad was buying itself the bomb. Washington, which promptly cut off most of its aid to Pakistan, was caught by surprise: it had persuaded France last year not to sell a nuclear reprocessing plant to Pakistan for fear the country would use it to produce Plutonium for a bomb. It now turned out that Pakistan was already well on its way to making nuclear bombs not from plutonium but from another deadly substance-enriched uranium...
...life in the early and mid-'70s in the $7,000-a-year Halls of Ivy was a round of rape and robbery and rising racial distrust, of crowding and cheating and grade grubbing and sexual anxiety, of pulverizing noise (from your roommate's stereo) and fear of future unemployment (for history and English majors particularly). Some of the causes are familiar. Heavy enrollment, due to simple greed plus the need to admit more women and blacks, sometimes led to tenement-like conditions in dorms originally equipped to handle half as many bodies...
...year 4,500 books were stolen from the Berkeley library. When caught, college thieves and cheaters tended to say, "I didn't do anything that everyone else isn't doing." Faculties were not much help. Many, Lament reports, objected to taking a moral stand for fear of "sounding like scolds" to their students. As a University of Chicago professor confided, "We lack the language to teach right and wrong...