Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation is importing now and considerably more than it brought in last year, when the start of shipments from Alaska temporarily held down imports. But it would be a low enough ceiling to force curtailment of some cherished petroleum-wasting habits such as lavish outdoor lighting displays, and it might extend or worsen the present prospects of recession. The Europeans accepted the principle of setting country-by-country limits, and of applying them to consumption as well as imports, but held off actually working them out until after a meeting of the nine-nation European Community later this year...
...free market unquestionably would reduce demand by raising the cost. Second, the price would still be lower in the U.S. than in any other industrial nation except Canada. Third, the Government could use taxes both to skim off any "windfall" profits and to compensate lower-income people, who might otherwise be hurt by higher gasoline costs...
...Senate suggestions for amendments. Early last week in Moscow, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko took the unusual step of calling a press conference and declared that any changes in the treaty would be fatal. Said Gromyko: "It would be the end of negotiations. It would be impossible, whatever amendments might be added." Western diplomats were struck by the toughness of Gromyko's language, which underscored the position taken by Leonid Brezhnev at the Vienna summit...
Baker seemed to be suggesting that the U.S. might offer to sacrifice its planned mobile MX missile for a Soviet agreement to give up the SS-18s. That would be a bad deal because the 200 superaccurate mobile MXs that the U.S. plans to build would have up to ten warheads each and would be more than a match for the stationary...
...that suggested that he was trying to allow for the possibility of having to reverse field on the treaty. He criticized, for instance, the fact that the Soviet Backfire bomber was left out of the treaty. At the same time, he seemed to suggest that he might settle for some measure short of counting Backfire under SALT, such as a Senate resolution calling on the U.S. to develop an equivalent bomber, which would be permitted under the treaty. On balance, however, Baker was so adamant about opposing the agreement that he probably would lose considerable face by changing his mind...