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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their plane neared Phnom-Penh, Philips and O'Shea observed that there was practically no cultivated land. "I've been flying light aircraft for a long time," Philips said, "and I've never seen a countryside more devoid of people." There were few signs of life at Phnom-Penh's airport; landing instructions had come from Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), 130 miles away. The plane was met by representatives of the International Red Cross and of UNICEF. At first it was not clear how the unloading was to be done. Then emerged a ragged line...
...whether the movement is Marxist: This is propaganda. The Republican movement has always been socialist in the Irish tradition of radical thinkers. It has never been a Marxist movement, and it is not one now. We are not enamored of what happens in the East bloc countries, and at the same time we don't think democracy exists in the West. We would have a lot more in common with the Third World...
...links with other guerrillas: There have never been close ties between the Republican movement and the P.L.O., the Basques or any other revolutionary groups. Obviously, there are parallels, and we would express solidarity with their struggles for national liberation...
Once again the turmoil in Iran emphasizes American dependence upon what Jimmy Carter calls the "thin line of oil tankers stretching halfway around the earth to one of the most unstable regions in the world." The drive to gain some freedom from OPEC by developing domestic energy sources has never been more pressing. Last week the Senate easily adopted by a vote of 65 to 19 a $20 billion synthetic-fuel program that, among other things, would turn the nation's vast coal deposits into oil and gas. But of all the old and new sources of petroleum...
...laced with a solid fossil fuel called kerogen. The kerogen was deposited 40 million years ago in the form of millions of tons of vegetable matter that collected on the bottom of a mammoth freshwater lake that then covered Utah, Wyoming and Colorado. But these lake-bed accumulations were never subjected to temperatures as high as 300° F and to extreme pressures that in time created underground deposits of readily usable liquid oil and natural gas. Now man must finish nature's work...