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...White House then was that a high Republican traveling with Vice Presidential Candidate Spiro Agnew had got to Mme. Chennault to urge her to carry the message to Saigon. When Johnson demanded to know who the contact on the Agnew plane might have been, the FBI's proven ability to detect such sources suddenly and mysteriously faltered. As one of Johnson's most trusted men put it last week, "The power had passed." Indeed it had. Another conspirator was about to enter the White House, and the FBI was getting ready...
According to the composite, any move would concentrate on the Persian Gulf Arab states that pump 54% of the oil produced by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and control 40% of the world's proven oil reserves. The primary target would be Saudi Arabia, which has 56.5% of this oil. According to the plan, the Saudis would be overwhelmed by a U.S. air-sea strike force prepared to hurl four divisions of troops at the Ghawar wellhead and the loading jetties of the U.S.-built oil facility at Dhahran...
China scored an important economic leap forward in 1973 by making the heady transition from oil importer to oil exporter. China is not the Far East's Saudi Arabia. But with proven reserves in the 20 billion bbl. range (v. 132 billion for the Saudis, 35.3 billion for the U.S.), Peking expects oil eventually to become China's principal foreign exchange earner. Like other oil exporters, China will be able to benefit politically. In 1974 Peking exported some 30.5 million bbl. of crude (up 430% over 1973) to Japan, earning $442 million; the reason was not only...
Given the complexities and uncertainties of the U.S. condition, the program may go too far in some directions and not far enough in others. There are no proven remedies for the plight of the economy. Ford failed in his first efforts last fall, and has been forced to retreat from the positions and programs he espoused then; he could be wrong again, and, in any case, it is not yet clear that all of his measures will pull in the same direction...
...friend. Copper and nickel are now being mined in the eastern part of the country and shipped to the U.S. for refining. The mining machinery will soon be powered by Botswana's coal. Mineralogists have found that perhaps 400 billion tons of coal-almost two-thirds of the proven reserves in all of Europe-lie beneath the country's soil. Additional recent copper and nickel discoveries have been labeled "very promising" by representatives of U.S. Steel, and deposits of manganese, asbestos and gypsum have yet to be developed...