Word: reopening
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...film makers hoped to reopen or revitalize the investigation of the assassination, there is nothing here to do it. The movie is so clumsy it may accomplish exactly the opposite: it may discredit all the theorists who have raised some pertinent and puzzling points and make them look like dabblers in unlikely melodrama. The movie trivializes national tragedy and leeches off still-painful wounds...
...Army to retreat to the west bank of the canal. The Egyptians would be permitted to retain a limited force on the east bank, and the Israelis would pull back about six miles eastward into the Sinai. U.N. troops would take up positions between the two sides; Egypt would reopen the Suez Canal, and Israeli shipping would receive free passage through the canal for the first time...
...Fertilizer has been short partly because of a scarcity of ingredients, including natural gas, and partly because foreigners were buying up so much of what was produced domestically by paying $25 a ton more than the controlled U.S. price. Dunlop got only a grudging commitment that fertilizer firms would reopen a few shuttered plants and expand production at some other factories. Price controls on fertilizer were nevertheless lifted altogether last month, and since then the companies have boosted their prices 30% or more...
Still, Board members agree that the economy is in for a lengthy economic stagnation and an energy shortage whether or not the Arabs quickly reopen the oil valve. If that valve remains tightly shut for long, the stagnation could easily change to a rather severe economic contraction. Some predictions...
...implications of the oil warfare reach far beyond the Arab-Israeli dispute. Not since World War II has any event carried more potential for global change. Even if the Arabs were to reopen their taps tomorrow, the world would never again be the same. The sudden shortage of fuel has finally jolted governments into a realization that the era of cheap and ample energy is dead and that people will have to learn to live permanently with less heating, lighting and transport and pay more for each of them. That awareness will force nations to conserve energy and push costly...