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That may well be the fate of Guillaume, the biggest spy caught in West Germany since World War II. West German officials reckon that Guillaume apparently had an unusually sophisticated mission: to serve as a warning from the East German regime that there are hidden dangers in detente. According to this reasoning, the East Germans have achieved the international recognition they want from détente, but now refuse to open their country to more contacts with the West. Thus, by embarrassing Brandt, the East Germans hope to discredit Ostpolitik in Bonn and reduce the pressure for internal change...
...third quarter and 4% in the fourth. Gasoline shortages would range between 2% and 5% for the rest of this year, and residual oil used to power electric generators would fall a dangerous 13% below demand in the months immediately ahead. On the other hand, FEO analysts reckon, with effective conservation the gap between supply and demand for all petroleum products would be only 3% in the current quarter and a mere 1 % in the third and fourth. No gasoline shortage at all would exist in the second half of 1974, and scarcities of residual oil would amount...
...ending in June 1975, on his tenure in office. Of his Adams House mastership, he tells friends: "I can't bring myself to look upon this as home." His family feels more comfortable in their summer home in New Hampshire, where his two young children don't have to reckon with the dirt and commotion of the city...
...said that the oil companies failed to reckon with the recession following the Vietnam War and with a weakened president following the Watergate affair...
Because there were literally tens of millions of potential plaintiffs, the defendant drug companies hoped that the courts would turn their backs on the whole morass on the ground that it was "unmanageable." But they did not reckon with Judge Lord, a former Minnesota attorney general who is the latest jurist to rule on the matter. "There are no unmanageable cases," he said. "There are only lazy judges." This week Lord will okay the last major settlement for American consumers. So far, the cases figure to cost the companies a total of $175 million in damages...