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...bearable level. U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger concedes that prices would have to stay higher than the $3.65 per bbl. that Persian Gulf producers were charging before they started the embargo in October. But he also points out that present prices, which range up to $20 per bbl., threaten severe disruption of the world economy...
Another speaker, Leon Eisenberg, professor of Psychiatry at the Ed School, said the Pentagon and the CIA, which help insure dictatorship in Greece, also "threaten democracy in this country...
...injury when their cars were demolished by passenger trains as they sat stubbornly in lines that stretched across railroad tracks. "These people are like animals foraging for food," says Don Jacobson, who runs an Amoco station in Miami. "If you can't sell them gas, they'll threaten to beat you up, wreck your station, run over you with a car." Laments Bob Graves, a Lexington, Mass., Texaco dealer: "They've broken my pump handles and smashed the glass on the pumps, and tried to start fights when we close. We're all so busy...
...reporter had been nurtured on war. As a mainstay in the London bureau during World War II, he learned daily that war reporters write for the censors. Wartime censorship made sense to Reston; he often has said that reporters must not delve into areas in a way that might threaten the country's safety. The lessons learned by Reston the war reporter helped form the values of Reston the columnist. Referring to Vietnam in his 1965 lecture, he said, "It is clear in this time of half-war and half-peace that the old principle of publish-and-be-damned...
Khrushchev wrote: "You threaten us with war...We must not succumb to light-headedness and petty passions, regardless of whether elections are forth-coming in one country or another...