Word: planned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...provisional government. At first, Somoza stalled, apparently hoping that his powerfully armed 12,000-member national guard might still reverse the tide of battle. But by the beginning of last week even Somoza could see that further resistance was futile. He agreed to the rebel junta's plan for turning over power to the new regime. The first step would be for Somoza to resign and leave the country. The National Assembly would then elect an interim President, who would in turn step aside for the incoming provisional government. Finally, the Sandinista's 5,000-man guerrilla army...
...waterfront mansion in Miami Beach. According to Somoza, Christopher warned that if Urcuyo could not be persuaded to step down immediately, Somoza would no longer be welcome in the U.S. Chastened by Christopher's blunt talk, Somoza telephoned Urcuyo and ordered him to go along with the transition plan...
...first casualty of Jimmy Carter's Cabinet shake-ups was the momentum that he had been building behind his staggeringly expensive, exceedingly complex and long overdue new energy program. That is doubly unfortunate, because the damage was self-inflicted, and even more because the plan makes a start on attacking a problem that will continue to menace the U.S. long after the switches in the Cabinet have faded in significance...
Carter's program, which resembles the late Vice President Nelson Rockefeller's 1975 plan for a $100 billion Energy Independence Authority, would profit many companies, small and large alike. Any rush to build synfuel plants would bring new orders for makers of steel, drilling-equipment tools and construction machinery. Says Julian Ward, vice president at Houston's Brown & Root construction firm: "Any company with design-engineering and construction capability is going to have a part of this thing-it's so big. The spending would sop up the entire U.S. petrochemical-engineering know...
Carter's plan leaves many questions unanswered. Nobody in Washington seems to know how much energy would be expended just to build the plants, roads, railroads, machines and tools needed to create the synfuels industry-and how much time would pass before the U.S. realized a net energy gain. Simply building the necessary infrastructure will chew up years. Yet the payoff in the form of oil and gas could be so enormous that the U.S. might, some decades hence, become again an exporter of energy. The U.S. has an enormous potential lode of synthetic fuel, and the growing consensus...