Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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University officials blame inflation, chiefly food and fuel costs, for the size of the rise...
...Hamburg nuclear physicist and his wife Hannelore were gone when police arrived; they had apparently been alerted by a message on an illegal short-wave radio that was found in their apartment. Reiner Paul Fülle, 40, an accountant for a Karlsruhe plant that recycles nuclear fuel, was caught by the Bundeskriminalamt, West Germany's equivalent of the FBI. But when the lone agent assigned to drive Fülle to jail reached the prison and got out of the car the prisoner, who unaccountably had not been manacled, leaped out too and disappeared into the darkness. Embarrassed...
...strike has been dragging on since late October, and for the last month virtually no crude at all has been pumped out of the ground. Last week, in fact, the U.S. faced the bizarre situation of having to rush an emergency shipment of 200,000 barrels of diesel fuel and gasoline to Iran because local refinery output is insufficient to meet domestic needs...
...apartments and factories to convert to oil heat-there is also an effort under way to pump Soviet oil down from the main pipeline network to the north. That, however, is an enormous engineering task, and even though the gas-rich U.S.S.R. has a surplus of the fuel available to ease the crunch in the Transcaucasus, the troubles in Iran could be long over before the pipeline rerouting is finished...
Meanwhile, Soviet newspapers and radio broadcasts are filled with familiar-sounding exhortations: insulate doors and windows, keep down temperatures in apartments, try not to use scarce gas for cooking and hot-water bathing. As if surprised, the Armenian party paper Kommunist declared: "A fuel crisis is a serious, disastrous occurrence, even on the scale of a single region," Welcome to the 1970s...