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Organization, while always valuable, is less decisive in big primary states???New York on April 3, California on June 5 if the race lasts that long?where mass electorates can be quickly swayed by newspaper and TV publicity. Says Hart...
...chances are that one of the initial decisions to be announced will involve intercontinental ballistic missiles. The nation's land-based missile force?1,052 Minuteman and Titan missiles stored in silos scattered across seven states???is widely feared to be vulnerable to a Soviet surprise attack. Reagan and Weinberger inherited from the Carter Administration a plan to shuttle 200 MX (Missile Experimental) launchers, carrying ten warheads each, among 4,600 shelters along a vast "drag strip" in Utah and Nevada...
Americans last week began getting an unpleasant taste of what lies ahead. Gasoline lines, which once seemed a temporary California phenomenon, were snaking through the suburbs of Washington and streets of Manhattan, and by last week had spread all up and down the Eastern seaboard. Seven states???Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Texas and Virginia?and the District of Columbia had to begin odd-even allocation. Independent truckers, who charge that rising fuel prices are depriving them of a livelihood, started a strike that soon led to food shortages, scattered violence and threats of worse to come. Although...
Three moderate Arab states???Tunisia, Morocco and the Sudan openly endorsed the mission, however. Saudi Arabia, in a mild criticism, said the Sadat trip put the Arab world "in a precarious position." Actually, the Saudis had been briefed about the trip and its objectives by Sadat and had accepted the idea. But as head of a politically powerful Arab state and the spiritual leader of Islam, King Khalid could not remain completely silent amid all the other protests...
...have to enlarge their imports. This can be accomplished fairly easily by seven of the OPEC members: Iran, Venezuela, Indonesia, Iraq, Nigeria, Algeria and Ecuador. They have relatively big populations and much poverty?hence much need for internal development. The huge problem is that six other, lightly populated Arab states???Saudi Arabia, Libya, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Qatar?are collecting far more money than they can possibly spend. These six, embracing only 9.3 million people, earned $54.7 billion from oil last year. For all their industrialization and social welfare, their military and foreign aid, they can dispose of only...