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Little that was done in Tokyo will help to ease that process. Before the meeting started, diplomats discarded as unworkable the idea of forming a consumers' cartel to bargain with OPEC. The summit leaders did agree, however, to push production of coal and nuclear power...
...standby gasoline-rationing program and his windfall-profits tax on oil companies, to accompany the decontrol of domestic oil prices that he hopes will arrest the decline in U.S. oil output. That scarcely adds up to a sweeping program. Unhappily, the only group that seems to have a clear idea of how it wants to manage the energy crisis is OPEC...
Administration officials rebuffed the idea of a secret negotiating role for Kissinger. Although his path coincides suspiciously with the general itinerary of Jimmy Carter's Middle East Ambassador Robert Strauss, who will be visiting the area this week, the Administration's troubleshooter seemed unconcerned. "Henry even called me up to make sure his trip would not complicate things for us," said Strauss. "In no way does he intend to get involved in our work...
...agenda are three strong whaling-moratorium proposals that require a 75% majority for passage. The most dramatic idea comes from Australia, until last year a vigorous whaling country. It wants an indefinite ban on all whaling. The Carter Administration, backed only last week by Congress, has submitted a similar suggestion, with one loophole: Eskimos in Alaska would be allowed to maintain subsistence hunting of the endangered bowhead whale under strict quotas (last year's ceiling: 18 kills). If the conference fails to act on the U.S. proposal or a similar one, Congress may toss out a legislative harpoon...
Still, Rupp hints that some consolidation program will probably bring a sense of cohesiveness to all members of the Div School. "A pressing need is to get a clearer idea of what students and faculty at the Divinity School have in common," Rupp says. He adds, "Differentiation into different degree programs gives the impression of more splinteredness than is the case...