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Under both President Reagan and his predecessor Jimmy Carter, the State Department argued that once the pipeline entered service in 1984, Western Europe would become vulnerable to threatened Soviet gas cutoffs. Moscow will eventually be shipping 40 billion cubic meters of gas annually to Western Europe, or about one-fourth of the area's estimated natural-gas needs. Warned Assistant Secretary of State Robert Hormats: "In the past, the Soviet Union has used energy exports as a political lever, interrupting supplies to Yugoslavia, Israel and China, among others." Only last month, Myer Rashish, the Under Secretary of State...
Sales for hard currency to such clients as Libya, Syria and Algeria and, until recently, Iraq have almost entirely supplanted grants and sweetheart deals. The Central Intelligence Agency estimates that weapons sales bring in roughly one-fourth of the foreign currency earned by Moscow...
...Voter Registration Board, Velasquez boasts proudly of his group's first successful battle. As he flips through piles of documents, he rattles off some other accomplishments: Since 1977, the organization has filed 50 gerrymandering suits and has yet to lose one; between 1976 and 1979, the number of elected Mexican-American officials in Texas increased more than one-fourth; during the same period, voter registration jumped...
...with pride. Attendance was 11 million, up 15% from the record-breaking year before, and box-office receipts tallied $196.9 million, almost quadruple those of the 1969-70 doldrums. A new generation of out-of-town and foreign visitors who love New York also love the New York theater; one-fourth of Broadway ticket buyers are from outside the metropolitan area. A new generation of entertainment consumers, attracted by television commercials, half-price tickets made available on the day of the performance, and the ease of ordering by phone, has developed the Broadway habit, presaging financial health for years...
...each of four fortnightly sessions at California's Computer Camp Inc., the nation's largest, located in Los Padres National Forest outside Santa Barbara. Now in its second year, the camp was created by Denison Bollay, 28, who became addicted to computers at age 13. About one-fourth of the Los Padres campers are familiar with computers before they arrive (some bring their own home computers with them); for most, though, the two-week immersion is their first close encounter with the machines. "We've got a computer at my school," explains red-haired Karl Kuellmer...