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...litmus test is provided by three refineries: Texaco Trinidad, Amerada Hess on St. Croix and Bahamas Oil Refining Co. (Borco) on Grand Bahama Island. Together they have a refining capacity of more than 1,000,000 bbl. a day, most of which is shipped to the U.S. Before the cutoff they depended on the Arabs for almost half their crude; if the embargo were fully effective, they should be cutting production drastically by now. Yet the Texaco refinery has reduced by only 60,000 bbl. a day-to 140,000 bbl.-the amount of petroleum products it ships...
Test for the Allies. As it happened, the Vienna conference on reduction of forces was just getting under way, and the détente crisis could hardly have come at a worse moment for the allies. The arms talks are viewed as a litmus of Soviet intentions: How far is Moscow willing to go in pulling back part of its huge army poised on the border of Western Europe in order to relax tensions? The talks will also be a test of whether the Atlantic Alliance has the cohesion and strength to engage in a long, hard and potentially divisive...
Until now, the House has always been pro-government by about a 2-1 margin. The makeup is likely to be much the same after this week's ballots are counted. However, significant antigovernment blocs have begun to coalesce, thus the election promised to be a litmus test of how much support such antigovernment parties could get in the face of overwhelming obstacles...
When the freeze expires in mid-November, how will anyone know whether or not it has been a success? Phase 2 will be the real test, but at the end of the first 90 days there will be several useful points at which to apply the economic litmus. Part of the test will be psychological: there will have to be a popular consensus that the program is working, some feeling that things look better. Even before then, there will have to have been serious negotiations between labor, management and Government to get Phase 2 under way. If Phase...
...handful of contests remain most important. New Hampshire is particularly crucial to Muskie, who must win convincingly in his own backyard. Each candidate will need to carry one of the Midwestern states; Wisconsin is likely to be the major target. The Oregon primary is a key litmus. But most important is California; the winner there will carry the biggest delegate slate into the convention...