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Unrest and Upheaval. The challenges cited by the panelists were many and varied. Iran is clearly lost as an ally. Saudi Arabia, the linchpin of the entire area, is very different from Iran but also highly vulnerable. Egypt, supported by the U.S., in part because of President Anwar Sadat's peace initiatives toward Israel, has serious economic problems, and corruption that is "worse than under Farouk," according to retired Career Foreign Service Officer Jim Akins. Turkey once again is the sick man of Europe, sliding into bankruptcy and desperately in need of financial...
...19th century fuel that is dangerous to mine, difficult to transport and dirty to burn free the world's most energy-hungry nation from its crushing dependence on foreign oil? All along, that has been the big question mark over coal, the linchpin in President Carter's National Energy Plan. Carter's goal for coal is to boost output to 1.2 billion tons a year by 1985-an unprecedented increase of almost 75% over the 685 million tons mined last year-and to coax electric utilities and industry to burn the coal instead of imported...
...OPEC scheduled an early April meeting to discuss raising the price of oil, which has remained frozen for months. Reason: to offset the decline in value of the dollars in which OPEC's 13 members are paid for their petroleum. Saudi Arabia, OPEC's linchpin, is still opposed to a price boost, but whether it can prevail is becoming less certain. Iraq and Kuwait are among the leading OPEC members who demand a rise in prices and perhaps even an end to the dollar's role as the sole currency in which world oil prices are quoted...
...following year Penders made his real breakthrough, when he corralled Juan Mitchell, Ricky Free and Alton Byrd, who form the nucleus of the present squad. Byrd is the linchpin of Columbia's attack: despite missing eight games this year, he managed to set Columbia's all-time career assist record...
...linchpin of Gary Walters' Dartmouth squad is senior center Sterling Edmonds. Edmonds relied on his silken shot to average 17.4 points last season and was named to the All-Ivy second team...