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...satellite killer to defend against the Soviet version. In September the Defense Department quietly awarded the $58.7 million contract for its own ASAT program to the Vought Corp. of Dallas. The U.S. plan is to leap frog the relatively crude Soviet ASAT technology and put into space by the mid-1980s hunter-killer satellites armed with lasers that could vaporize metal in 20 billionths of a second...
...finds the ultimate X factor to be the Soviet Union. In an analysis that Carter drew on heavily in shaping his national energy plan, the CIA predicted that the U.S.S.R. some time in the mid-1980s would switch from being an oil exporter to a major importer, swallowing enough OPEC supplies to spread shortages throughout the West...
...company described the step as "routine," Youngstowners are well aware that U.S. Steel is seriously considering building a modern steel complex in Conneaut, 50 miles away. If it decides to go ahead, the 6,000 U.S. Steel jobs in the Youngstown area could be drastically reduced by the mid-1980s...
That comment by an oil expert points to one of the most troublesome problems facing Jimmy Carter in selling his energy program. The President based his case for urgent conservation efforts partly on a CIA study that forecasts serious world petroleum shortages and economic upheavals as early as the mid-1980s. No sooner had he stopped speaking, however, than critics-most notably Ralph Nader-began contending that the U.S., and the world, contains more oil than Carter seems to think. If that idea takes hold with the public, the President can scarcely hope to rally the U.S. for the "moral...
There was some grumbling that the President had overstated the dangers of the energy crisis. Carter played up a CIA report indicating that the world would begin to run short of oil as soon as the mid-1980s. In fact, the CIA study is questionable: its estimates of world demand are in some cases frankly guesswork, and they conflict with the calculations of other experts, notably those employed by the 24-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development...