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...release of an unexpectedly optimistic Central Intelligence Agency assessment of Soviet oil production potential through the 1980s. Four years ago, the agency had predicted that growing Soviet need for oil would force that country to import as much as 3.5 million bbl. daily from non-Communist suppliers by the mid-1980s, thus placing grave new strains on the world petroleum market. But last week the agency contradicted its original assessment of Soviet production capacity and revised the estimates upward, suggesting that the Soviet Union will remain self-sufficient in oil until at least 1990. By that time, perhaps, OPEC will...
Today, only the United States and Canada produce more uranium than South Africa. By the mid-1980s, South Africa aims to be the second largest producer. In order to up those uranium production figures, South Africa's government will need some financial assistance. In this, Harvard's stock holdings may be of some assistance. "It doesn't matter where the companies Harvard is operating in are located," says Mabilo Mabeta, a graduate student who lives at South House. "Owning stock in uranium is the same as owning stock in oppression...
...that the pipeline will help efforts by the Soviets to tap their own energy resources and ease any future fuel shortages. Soviet oil production has been growing more slowly in recent years, and some Western experts predict that the country might become a net importer of oil by the mid-1980s. The pipeline will alleviate the situation by sending gas to the Soviet Union's more populated regions like Minsk...
...France selling technology that could be used to produce an atomic bomb? The French, of course, say no, as do the Iraqis. But the Israelis, who would be most directly threatened, insist that Iraq could accumulate enough expertise and enriched uranium to make several nuclear weapons by the mid-1980s. Jerusalem has mounted a campaign to alert Western Europe and the U.S. to what it considers a mortal danger. Israel's Transportation Minister Haim Landau went so far as to accuse France of pursuing policies "similar to those of the Vichy regime" during World War II. Deputy Defense Minister...
...stage program to accelerate NATO's already ambitious two-year-old Long Term Defense Program. As a first stage, the alliance plans to acquire more conventional battlefield weapons within the next year, increase ammunition stockpiles and improve defenses against Soviet chemical warfare. Then by the mid-1980s, the allies intend to complete the program's second stage: expand reserve forces, help the U.S. build up stocks of munitions for U.S. units to be dispatched to Europe in an emergency, deploy more electronic jamming devices and remodel civilian aircraft so that they could be converted quickly to carry troops...