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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unworkable various schemes to form a kind of consumers' cartel to negotiate with OPEC, or to put a ceiling on the price the seven countries would permit corporations to pay for oil on the Rotterdam "spot" market (users bid there for supplies not tied up under long-term contracts, and prices have shot as high as $40 per bbl.). French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, speaking on behalf of the European Community, outlined a plan to freeze European oil imports at last year's level and to "dissuade companies from lending themselves to transactions at excessive prices" in Rotterdam...
...latter groups (the Christian Democrats of continental Europe, with 106 seats; the British and Danish Conservatives, with 63 seats; and the French, West German and Low Country Liberals, with 40) can come to a working alliance, they should be able to dominate the Parliament for its first five-year term. The Socialists publicly refused a common "popular front" with the 44 Communists and their allies, although on such pocketbook issues as prices and unemployment they may make common cause...
Uncertain of Viet Nam's long-term objectives in Cambodia, the Bangkok government fears that the conflict could spill over into Thailand: after a temporary cutback during the border war with China in February, Vietnamese troop strength in Cambodia is on the rise again and may now involve as many as 200,000 men. Moreover, Thailand simply cannot cope with the new floodtide of escapees. Inundated by nearly 250,000 Indochinese refugees-80,000 Cambodians, 24,000 Vietnamese and 138,000 Laotians-Thailand says its facilities have been strained to the breaking point and its national security is threatened...
...Carter's broadside was in no way actionable. Radio stations across the country generally played uncensored interviews with the Congressmen who overheard Carter's statement. A few television newscasts, though, avoided mention of the indelicate word. Jim Ruddle, anchorman at Chicago's WMAQ-TV, used the term posterior, and Tom Brokaw of NBC'S Today show mumbled slyly about a "three-letter part of the anatomy that's somewhere near the bottom." CBS's Roger Mudd alluded to Carter's remark without quoting it directly, but a copy of the New York Post...
...that he cannot protect his lies. For one thing, a crewman on the yacht can blow his story. But unlike Nixon, this President does not wait until it is too late. He confesses on television, promising not to seek re-election but pleading to be allowed to finish his term. Clearly, Ehrlichman believes Nixon could have saved himself by making a similar confession before he became fatally entangled in his tapes. Ehrlichman probably is right...