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From Saudi Arabia to Sumatra, from Nigeria to the North Sea, up comes the oil. And every day, 24 hours a day?at a rate of 30,000 gallons per second???the petroleum-thirsting world swills it back down in desperate, energizing gulps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Big Oil Game | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...approximately the same rate as its own, and assurance that the present Saigon government has the facilities to maintain its own security. Hanoi has expressed willingness to negotiatevftn the first condition, but adamantly insists that the U.S. must reach a separate accord with the National Liberation Front on the second???the better to emphasize the Front's legitimacy. At stake is the eventual future of a South Viet Nam without foreign troops?but faced with a sizable number of native Communist insurgents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF PEACE IN VIET NAM | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...Second???I desire that the vesting in my person, and thereby in the Reich Chancellor's office as such, of the functions of the former Reich Presidency, decided upon by the Cabinet and constitutionally valid, shall receive the expressed sanction of the German people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: End of Three Lives | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

...Second???Reduction should be carried out not only by broad general cuts in armaments but by increasing the comparative power of defense through decreases in the power of the attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: President Proposes | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

Significance? Not since the Soviet Foreign Minister, Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, threw at Geneva his first Peace Bomb* and his Second??? had there been so profound a sensation among professional Peace workers. Instantly the French Plan, like the Russian Plan, was damned and doomed?though, of course, everyone had to be infinitely more polite to M. Tardieu than they had been to Comrade Litvinov. The German delegation, frankly skeptical, protested that this was a disarmament conference, and where was there any Disarmament in M. Tardieu's words? They called the French security plan "a beautiful fable lacking a moral." With fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Arms for Disarmament | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

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