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...election campaign has raised almost $3 million, but contrived to spend most of it. One bright spot for Carter: the surprising number of donations that are rolling in from prominent Republicans, who apparently will do just about anything to stop Kennedy...
...certain provisions" be included in the Senate resolution approving the treaty. Unlike the "killer" amendments that are being proposed by SALT's critics, Byrd's measures would require no new bargaining with Moscow. But they could eliminate some ambiguities in the treaty that have been troubling a number of Senators. Among other things, Byrd wants the ratifying resolution to state explicitly that Senate approval would be required for any extension, beyond its scheduled expiration at the end of 1981, of the protocol that is to limit such key weapons as the mobile intercontinental ballistic missile and the ground...
...specter of Big Oil wallowing in billions raised a number of policy issues that could change the structure of the nation's energy institutions. Talk rose in Washington of increasing the taxes that oilmen must pay, of putting limits on profits and keeping controls on prices, perhaps ultimately of breaking up the companies or moving toward partial nationalization. There was not much discussion that holding down profits might also reduce exploration and production, that holding down, prices would fire up demand for even more oil imports. At the same time, the U.S. may have to move toward more dependence...
...capital of investors attracted by profits. While Exxon, for example, has earned nearly $3 billion so far this year, it has also invested $7.5 billion in energy exploration and development, with 41% of it in the U.S. Partly because prices and profits are up, domestic drilling is booming. The number of oil rigs at work in the U.S. has jumped from 1,929 in April to 2,391 at present and is expected to reach 2,600 by year's end. It is highly questionable whether stiffer controls or nationalization would spur more efficiency. The record of the Post...
...further ''military detente in Europe.'' As the most tempting carrot of all, he announced the unilateral withdrawal over the next year of as many as 20,000 Soviet troops and 1,000 tanks from East Germany. Brezhnev also said the Soviet Union would reduce the number of its medium-range nuclear missiles along its western frontier, provided NATO deploys no new ones...