Word: pre-empt
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...Kissinger was awakened by news from U.S. Ambassador to Israel Kenneth Keating that war was imminent. Kissinger called the President and on Nixon's instructions telephoned the Israeli and Egyptian Foreign Ministers, urging "restraint." With Israel's Abba Eban, he added the extra warning: "Don't pre-empt...
...affaires in Washington: "Don't ever start the war. Don't ever preempt. If you fire the first shot, you won't have presidential support. You'll be alone, all alone. We wouldn't be able to help you. Don't pre-empt...
...Energy Emergency Bill passed by the Senate and now before the House would have it do. But the oil-parched military, unable to wait, has invoked an existing law to tap a larger domestic pool. In 1950, during the Korean War, Congress gave the Defense Department standby authority to pre-empt civilian supplies. The law was never used then, but it was last week. At Defense's request, the Department of the Interior ordered 22 major oil companies to deliver 19.6 million bbl. of fuel and other petroleum distillates to the military by Jan. 16. That should keep...
...collection agents for the oil exporters." No need to accuse anyone: the board chairman of British Petroleum called the companies tax-collecting agents, and I think rightly. As for any "concerted diplomatic effort to break the OPEC cartel," that cannot happen soon. Our Government, by threatening to pre-empt oil supplies and sponsoring preferential treatment for Saudi Arabian oil, has so scared and embittered our European and Asian friends that they would not listen even if we spoke the truth...
...received two bomb threats," said a beleaguered employee at WPIX, the station that airs Star Trek reruns in New York. "The reaction to the show is absolutely wild." Three thousand miles away, an official at KCOP in Los Angeles said, "When the program is on schedule and we pre-empt it for a special, that's really when the fans come out of the woodwork. We receive maybe several hundred letters a week...