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...help reinforce relations with two of Washington's most valued Pacific allies. The Tokyo economic summit, however-the fifth such meeting of leaders of the largest industrial democracies*-is shaping up as a complex political obstacle course that is sure to magnify Carter's No. 1 current problem: energy...
...summit, to be sure, has a full agenda of other, leftover economic topics. But with the West German and Japanese domestic economies now pulling their weight, the old problem of economic growth and recovery has become less urgent. The dollar is riding higher these days, so monetary questions will also be secondary, even if, as one U.S. official warned, "there is almost certain to be turbulence in the money markets later this year." And with the industrial economies themselves newly threatened by the energy crunch, there is bound to be little enthusiasm for fresh initiatives toward the developing countries...
...looming shadow of energy, in short, all the other problems are bound to be given short shrift. This time, as one Administration official put it, "all the delegates will be on one side of the table -and the problem of energy will be on the other side...
Shared solutions to the shared problem of energy will not come easily, however, because national and regional differences abound. First, relative dependence on imported oil varies widely, from Japan's virtually total reliance to Canada's relative self-sufficiency. So does consumption: Japan and Italy thriftily burn only about 16 bbl. per capita a year, while the U.S. devours a profligate...
That, alas, is precisely the problem. Now roughly a century after that flight of poetic fancy, clover and, indeed, a host of other crops have been laced with a chemical pesticide that may threaten the blissful honeybee with extinction. The culprit is methyl parathion, which has been used to combat pests like the boll weevil, scourge of the cotton fields. But methyl parathion is highly dangerous stuff. Only a dab will penetrate the skin, attack the nervous system and kill humans as well as insects...