Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arabs' message holds that a pro-Israeli stance by the U.S. runs counter to U.S. national interests-a clear reference to the power of oil and to Soviet influence in the region. The Palestinians, the Arabs say, have endured such sufferings that they deserve international support in the same way that the Jews deserved it after World War II. The pro-Arab spokesmen argue that Israel has been the consistent aggressor-back to biblical times, according to one fullpage newspaper ad-and is blocking peace efforts. Further, they contend, American policy has been distorted by the undue influence...
...Thai relations will be established by September. The Thai move has been enthusiastically supported by Singapore's toughly realistic Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, not out of love for China but from the feeling that good relations between Peking and Bangkok will enhance the stability of the entire region. The remaining member of ASEAN, Indonesia, will probably find the move of its neighbors toward China difficult to resist...
...thrust has pushed the Tokyo government of Premier Takeo Miki into an embarrassing corner. The two countries have been negotiating since last December over the wording of a "treaty of peace and amity." The problem is that Peking insists on including a clause condemning "hegemony" in the Asia-Pacific region by any nation; another transparently anti-Soviet gesture. Predictably, Moscow has warned Japan that signing a treaty with the hegemony clause will seriously damage Japanese-Soviet relations. The Japanese, unhappily caught in the vise of Sino-Soviet animosity, have as yet given no indication of how they will resolve their...
...tripolar balance is forming. The U.S. clearly wants to maintain a strong presence in the Pacific. China will try to strengthen its position by creating diplomatic ties with the ASEAN countries, while paradoxically keeping up its verbal support for the leftist insurrections that have survived for decades in the region's remoter areas. Moscow, too, already has normal relations with most of Southeast Asia's countries and a small but growing trade with some; despite Peking's efforts to outflank it in Southeast Asia, the Soviet Union will no doubt continue to be a significant factor...
...high prices. For example, the FTC officials contended, in 1971 and 1972 Union Oil for internal purposes assessed gas reserves in an area off the Louisiana shore at 7.2 trillion cu. ft.; at the same time, the American Gas Association was officially estimating reserves in the same region at exactly half -3.6 trillion cu. ft. Justified or not, the accusations can hardly fire congressional enthusiasm for decontrol of oil and gas prices...