Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...street gangs take over the city, any city. Some of them wore leather vests over bare chests. Others had on Arab headdresses. A few, their faces painted harlequin colors, wore baseball uniforms and carried bats. Massed as far as the eye could see, all looked menacing, and the threat was underscored by the text above the picture: "These are the Armies of the Night...
Another frighteningly familiar threat has suddenly loomed again: the prospect of production cutbacks by other OPEC members. Libya last week announced that beginning April 1 it will reduce sched uled deliveries to oil companies by 12 to 18% for unspecified reasons. Similarly Algeria told oil company customers to reduce purchases by 10% to 15%. OPEC officials tried to link continued oil supplies to a pro-Palestinian solution to the Arab Israeli conflict, but the real reason for the cuts is to keep supplies tight and prices high even though Iran is resuming limited production...
...volunteer army is perfectly capable of defending the United States," Alan Fruzzetti, a member of the Brown University chapter of SLS, said yesterday. "It is a defensive, peace-time army, a conscripted army is an invitation for military adventurism and a threat to world peace," he added...
...Soviets did not go beyond their warnings to China and lateral accusations against the U.S. In a televised speech, President Leonid Brezhnev repeated Soviet demands for the "immediate" recall of Chinese troops "to the last soldier," but stopped short of any direct threat of retaliation. The Soviets continued to badger Washington with charges of complicity, direct or indirect, in the Chinese invasion. Washington's "evenhanded" policy of castigating both the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and the Chinese invasion of Viet Nam was scornfully dismissed as a tilt toward China. It was that insistent Soviet view which torpedoed a United...
...much for the good news. Even as the supply shortage begins to look somewhat less menacing, the familiar and appalling threat is looming of yet another price rampage by the other members of the 13-nation OPEC cartel. Now as in 1973-74, the danger is that rocketing fuel prices will aggravate inflation, force governments to fight back by clamping down on domestic growth, and for the second time in a decade plunge the world economy into an oil-greased slide...