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...present, 72 nuclear plants are operational in the U.S., and the Carter Administration's energy planners had projected as many as 500 by the year 2000, producing a quarter of the country's power. But construction has turned down sharply since the peak year of 1974, when utilities ordered 26 new reactors. Between 1975 and 1977, three or four a year were ordered; in 1978 there were only two. Many earlier reactor orders have been canceled or deferred...
...arduous negotiations with the Palestinians about how much autonomy their old enemies should have on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. And, as the Israelis realized, the hard-won peace with Egypt would not deliver them from the high taxes, the steepening inflation and the ever present army reserve requirements that they have faced in the past...
...Collection Center for Captured Vietnamese," as the Chinese quaintly called the first camp, was located at Baise in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, some 60 miles north of the Vietnamese border. At first sight, reported one of the English-language journalists present, Nigel Wade of the London Daily Telegraph, it resembled nothing so much as a busy secondary school during recess. Prisoners in Chinese-supplied blue suits and caps were playing soccer, badminton and tug-of-war. The food seemed plentiful and nutritious. There was no barbed wire or watchtower, and only one visible armed sentry, at the main gate...
Whatever the ultimate shape of the package, the President and his advisers were having trouble right up to week's end just deciding how to present it. Carter's initial idea was to give a television address along the lines of the "moral equivalent of war" speech he made two years ago this month. But all that most Americans now remember of that occasion is that he called the nation to the energy barricades, then shrank from leading the fight. This time aides were urging him to choose a more subdued format. No matter where he speaks, Carter...
...cost could be reduced by the development of more efficient ways to produce alcohol. At present, the only proven technique is fermentation, basically the same, slow method that has been used for centuries to make liquor. Gasohol proponents have long been trying to get the government to finance the development of newer methods, and with Carter's help they may succeed...