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...Yankelovich, Clancy, Shulman, Baby Boomers have not lost the American birthright of optimism about the future. While they may not live quite as well as their parents, a surprising number think they do, and most feel they have more freedom to choose their own life-styles. In the mid-1980s, as interest rates drop back down to single digits and the work force expands to accommodate their vast numbers, the Boomers may in fact have renewed reason to hope...
...world energy market is "likely to remain deceptively stable through the mid-1980s." the IEA report says. And therein lies the danger, for people and governments will begin once more to neglect the energy issue and ignore pleas for continued conservation. True, gains have been made that will not easily be reversed. No one, for example, is about to rip insulation from walls or trade-in a fuel efficient compact for an oversized gas guzzler. But efforts to find alternative energy sources will diminish and conservation policies in general will take on less urgency...
Andropov's rise totally overshadowed the new agricultural program introduced by Brezhnev. Designed to remedy the inefficiency of the collective system, the scheme calls for increased capital investment in agriculture from a current 27% of the national budget to 33⅓% by the mid-1980s. But such large expenditures are unlikely to be carried out in the long run, experts believe. Like Brezhnev's plans for the succession, his extravagant program for agriculture may be shelved by the victors in the battle for the vast power he Still commands. -By Patricia Blake. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Moscow and Bruce...
...Soviets will be able to deploy laser weapons against planes and troops by the mid-1980s...
...alarm. A retired admiral who spent more than seven years as a prisoner of war in North Viet Nam, Denton believes that America is being destroyed by sexual immorality and Soviet-sponsored political "disinformation"-and that both are being promoted by dupes, or worse, in the media. By the mid-1980s, he warns, "we will have less national security than we had proportionately when George Washington's troops were walking around barefoot at Valley Forge...