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...countries, especially in Western Europe, subsidize farm exports. Block admitted that the plan "is not good policy," but said falling farm shipments left the U.S. with "no other alternative." Foreign sales of U.S. agricultural products this year are expected to total only $34.5 billion, down 20% from their 1981 peak...
...Department estimates offshore oil reserves at only 12.2 billion bbl. of crude, or 55% less than earlier predictions, and 90.5 trillion cu. ft. of gas, down 44%. If the study proves accurate, by the 1990s the U.S. may have to increase oil imports to as much as the 1977 peak of about 9 million bbl. a day, vs. 3 million bbl. today...
Dale has the showier role. In recounting, directly to the audience, the downs and irrepressible ups of the couple's years together, he mimics a condescending Viennese specialist, a trendy clergyman, a miraculously cured boy catatonic turned tap dancer. Leaping like a mountain goat from one peak of artifice to another, Dale displays flashes of a fine mind wasted on self-pity and despair. Channing joins him in these sarcastic reveries, but most of the time she has the hard duty of being normal. Sheila is clever enough to keep up with Brian but is essentially undistorted. She feels...
...CSOC. To add to all this activity orbiting around CSOC, the Pentagon has selected Colorado Springs as the home of the U.S. Space Command, which will direct all defense-oriented space activities, including those at CSOC. This would make the once sleepy town at the base of Pikes Peak the military space capital...
Founded after the Civil War by a Union general as a refined refuge for the well-heeled, Colorado Springs (pop. 259,000) has long enticed tourists with attractions like Pikes Peak Highway and the elegant Broadmoor Hotel. But in more recent years it has become a magnet for military installations. To the east of the city is Peterson Air Force Base; to the north is the U.S. Air Force Academy; to the south is the Army's Fort Carson; and buried deep in Cheyenne Mountain to the southwest, shielded behind 25-ton doors, is the North American Aerospace Defense Command...