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...meet legal fees and support their families. If not satisfied, Hunt threatened, he would tell all of "the seamy things" he had done for the White House. As he always has, despite the contrary evidence, Nixon now tells Frost that "March 21 was the date in which the full import, the full impact of the cover-up came...
...does not include military aid, estimated at $200,000 a day. Moscow also supplies almost all of Cuba's oil needs at bargain prices. But Cuba owes nearly $5 billion to the Soviets, plus $1 billion in hard currency to other countries. Agriculture has floundered, forcing Cuba to import beans, grain and meat from Europe and South America and rice from as far away as China. There is virtually no fish available: Cuba's entire catch goes for export cash...
Except for an understandable overflow of sentiment, the final episode of Upstairs, Downstairs, PBS's blue-chip 'British import, was of a piece with its predecessors. There was the titillating peek into the ways of conspicuous consumption: among other extravagances, the recipe for Georgina's four-tiered wedding cake calls for 16 pounds of currants. There was the history bulletin: Hudson snaps shut his newspaper (the time is 1930) and announces that two million Englishmen are unemployed. There was the subtle reminder that no servant is a heroine to her mistress: in an unusual fit of garrulity...
Carter called the U.S. "the most wasteful nation on earth," adding: "We waste more energy than we import." Claiming that "we can't substantially increase our domestic production," Carter said the U.S. will become perilously dependent on increasingly costly imported oil. "We could endanger our freedom as a sovereign nation to act in foreign affairs," and we would "constantly live in fear of embargoes." There would be pressure "to plunder the environment" in a crash program to expand nuclear plants, strip mining and the drilling of offshore wells. Regions within the U.S. would compete with each other for supplies. "Inflation...
...that the failure of industrialized nations to develop alternative power sources will result in a monumental energy crisis by the mid-1980s, involving widespread industrial shutdowns and a perilously declining growth rate. In Spain, for example, the economy is already suffering from the impact of a $4.5 billion oil import bill last year...