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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meantime, the SALT II draft that was signed by Carter and Brezhnev last June in Vienna was slowly wending its way through the Senate's complex ratification machinery. The Foreign Relations Committee's nine Democrats and six Republicans last week continued ''marking up''-going over line by line-the proposed resolution of ratification. During the ''mark-up,'' amendments can be introduced and voted upon by committee members. Among the most notable offered last week were several by Minority Leader Howard Baker that dealt with the Soviet monopoly on large-scale...
Because the Foreign Relations Com mittee is regarded as more pro-SALT than the full Senate, this razor-thin margin was seen as evidence of the rough time SALT II still faces. Indeed, some analysts feel that the pact's toughest and most in transigent opponents have been holding their fire, waiting for the proceedings to move to the Senate floor, probably around Thanksgiving...
Indeed, the Ayatullah's Foreign Ministry announced it would send a doctor to New York to monitor the Shah's illness, and angry Iranian students picketed the hospital with signs demanding DEATH TO THE SHAH. Meanwhile, more than 2,000 people, including Henry Kissinger,' sent get-well telegrams to the ailing ex-monarch...
...companies or moving toward partial nationalization. There was not much discussion that holding down profits might also reduce exploration and production, that holding down, prices would fire up demand for even more oil imports. At the same time, the U.S. may have to move toward more dependence on foreign oil because a major new report cast doubt on the future expansion of domestic nuclear power (see following story...
...special, unrepeatable circumstances. The third quarter of 1978 had been the worst three-month period in five years, and thus comparisons with this year's figures would show exaggerated growth. A July change in British tax law provided a onetime $200 million bonanza, and a reduction in foreign exchange losses saved Exxon $51 million. Those two items accounted for nearly a quarter of the 118% increase...