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...have two alternatives, neither of which bodes well for the rest of the world. They could use their gold reserves to compete with Western buyers on the already strained world oil market. This would push prices higher and cause incalculable economic turmoil. Or the Soviets could try to conquer Persian Gulf oilfields, which begin just across their southern border. Kremlin leaders flatly deny that they covet oil vital to the industrial West, but intelligence sources report that even Saudi Arabian leaders have held informal talks with the Soviets about the possibility of selling crude in exchange for Soviet...
...Ronald Reagan opposes the plan. As a sign of "national solidarity" in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, draft registration is a part of Carter's dangerously confrontational stance of reviving the cold war. And as a part of the Carter "doctrine" of military intervention in the Persian Gulf, draft registration represents Carter's failure to enact a sound program of energy independence...
...losing it." The Soviets are relying on a grand strategy to undermine the West. He quotes Leonid Brezhnev telling Somali President Siad Barre: "Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends-the energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the mineral treasure house of central and southern Africa...
Though piano bars, jazz joints and discos abound in the Big Apple, the Rainbow Grill is the classiest cabaret today in a city that once boasted such lively nocturnal redoubts as the Blue Angel, Le Ruban Bleu, La Vie en Rose, the Latin Quarter, the Persian Room and Cafe Society Uptown and Downtown. The irony is that this topless tower should be in the heart of staid Rockefeller Center, built 45 years ago by a family not exactly famed for tripping the light fantastic. On the other hand, the Rockefellers have never been known to disapprove of profitability...
Muskie also stressed to the Europeans an argument that has become increasingly pointed since the invasion of Afghanistan: that they must carry a heavier defense burden in order to free some U.S. military resources for duty in the now strategically critical Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean. U.S. officials had been pressing the Europeans on this for several months, and last week the allies agreed on a two-stage program to accelerate NATO's already ambitious two-year-old Long Term Defense Program. As a first stage, the alliance plans to acquire more conventional battlefield weapons within the next year...