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Carter, however, has been seeking other ways to allay one of the major fears of SALT's critics: that the strategic balance is tilting toward the U.S.S.R. To demonstrate that he wants to counter Moscow's military buildup, the President has become a forceful advocate of bigger Pentagon budgets. This is a sharp reversal from his position during the 1976 election campaign when he created the impression that he wanted to trim defense spending by $5 billion. For fiscal 1980, Carter is pushing for almost $123 billion in defense outlays, a $10 billion increase. After discounting for inflation...
Outside Iran, countries with a major stake in the outcome of the Shah's effort watched and waited uneasily. Iran is vital to the industrialized world not only because it is the second largest exporter of crude oil in the Middle East, but also because it is the "policeman" of the crucial Persian Gulf sea-lanes through which 40% of the non-Communist world's oil is shipped. The U.S. gets 8% of its imported crude from Iran: Western European countries from 20% to 40% of their supply. The impact of the dead stop in Iranian oil shipments...
...economy is going, she pores over mountains of statistics that Commerce collects on trade, inflation, retail sales and other matters. As a student, Slater wanted to become a physicist, but was told by a professor that "women just did not go into physics." After graduating as a history major from Oberlin College and marrying (her husband is a program analyst for the National Science Foundation), Slater decided to enter a field that would lead to Government work, and economics looked right. She finally earned a Ph.D. in economics after a twelve-year slog of night school at American University...
...Johnson's most fervent admirer among critics, Paul Goldberger of the New York Times, who called it "the most provocative and daring skyscraper proposed for New York since the Chrysler Building" and "the first major monument of Post-Modernism." Hogwash, retorted another critic, Michael Sorkin, in the Village Voice: A T & T will be "the architecture of appliqué ... the Seagram building with ears...
Davidson thinks that extensive dismemberment among the victims made the San Diego crash even more horrifying than most major accidents. Parts of bodies were strewn over lawns, houses and roads, and police said they could not walk down the street without stepping on human tissue. Emergency personnel were overwhelmed. They spent their first minutes in a semi-daze, trying to cover up the bloodiest scenes. Police who arrested people-for taking airplane parts or for not leaving the scene of a disaster-coped better. For such officers, says Psychologist Steven Padgitt, "there was some sense of purpose, some sense...