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...particularly in the case of the Soviet navy, often equipped with newer hardware. More important, the continuing Russian effort, together with the ceilings imposed on U.S. arms levels in the 1972 Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT I) with Moscow, leads analysts to fear that in the mid-1980s the Soviets might finally overtake...
...more than 12 billion bbl., v. 10 billion on Alaska's North Slope. Production has barely begun, but the fields are scheduled to be pumping 2.5 million bbl. a day by 1980. Britain, which controls the richest fields, expects to become a net exporter of oil by the mid-1980s (although the country is starting a drastic austerity program now). Norway's North Sea holdings are also large, and it is determined to squeeze out every benefit it can get, including big royalty demands from oil companies and use of Norwegian materials in pipeline construction. "The Arabs aren...
Although the Soviets have successfully tested their own MlRVs, it will still take time, as well as huge sums of money, to manufacture them in significant numbers. Schlesinger estimates that the Russians will not be able to match the U.S. inventory before the mid-1980s...
...photochemical oxidants-all of which come mainly from cars. Detroit is already working to cut these emissions sharply, but even if the automakers develop highly effective antipollution devices by 1975, there will still be so many old cars on the road that the problem will last until the mid-1980s. In 28 auto-jammed metropolitan areas with 30% of the U.S. population, therefore, the law's mandate is painfully simple: local officials must figure out ways to restrict the use of the car. After their "transportation strategies" are announced, citizens can express their views in public hearings. After that...
...change of heart and next year appropriates funds* for a manned trip to Mars. If that approval were given, NASA's dreamer planners would not be unprepared. They have already spelled out in detail a daring program that could land Americans on the Red Planet by the mid-1980s...