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Reagan said he was taking the action to break a five-month deadlock over his controversial nominees...
...late 1973, when the five-month embargo began as a direct result of the October War, oil imports totaled 36% of U.S. consumption, or 6.2 million bbl. per day; last August, imports reached 35.7%, or 5.97 million bbl. How would the nation fare today if Arab leaders deliberately turned off the tap, or if the fields were damaged, or if some other unpredictable trauma occurred? Many experts share the view of Henry Schuler, who directs energy and security studies at Georgetown University. Says he: "I don't think we're better...
...save themselves. Gribetz, however, was able to introduce testimony from eyewitnesses to the crimes. In the federal prosecution's defense, Gribetz said: "They had the more difficult case in that theirs rested upon informant testimony." Nevertheless, even U.S. District Court Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy, who presided over the five-month federal trial, expressed surprise at the result. Said he: "I have never understood juries...
...proposed a full-scale probe into the U.S. ties to Barbie, "the Butcher of Lyon" accused of the execution of 4,000 people and the deportation of 7,000 Jews living in France to concentration camps during the German occupation. The remarkable 218-page report of Ryan's five-month investigation, involving 200 interviews around the world, was released last week: it confirms that the Army's Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) hired Barbie as a spy in Germany after World War II and for four years hid him from the French, who were eager to prosecute...
With that, the White House launched the eleven-member Commission on Strategic Forces, chaired by retired Air Force Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft. It followed up with a relentless five-month campaign to convert wavering Democrats and Republican moderates. The payoff came last week: a 239-to-186 House vote-which was the big test-then a 59-to-39 Senate vote to release $625 million in MX flight-testing and development money. It was a resounding political victory for Reagan. Exclaimed the President to Duberstein: "Fantastic...