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What had happened between the two oil shocks was the development of perhaps the world's most coherent and effective energy program. The entire thrust of Japanese energy policy starting in the early 1970s was to make less oil do more. Average annual oil consumption per person in Japan has declined about 20% since 1972. The Japanese pushed conservation by turning off electric lights, trimming back service-station hours, lowering commercial-building temperatures and shutting down escalators. Many other countries, of course, took the same measures, but the Japanese were more successful. Japanese refrigerators now use only about half...
...that the briefing book imbroglio has been thrust into national consciousness, the Reagan Administration can regain its full credibility only by ensuring that investigations go forward. If there is housecleaning to be done, the President has already demonstrated-most recently in the EPA scandal-that he can do it, however reluctantly and unapologetically. He stands by his characterization of the ruckus as "much ado about nothing. " But Reagan has already said what Richard Nixon could never quite bring himself to say about Watergate. Promised Reagan: "If, when the investigation is over and the truth is known, it is necessary...
This is the thrust of a one month extension proposal made by Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D.N.Y.), which passed the Senate yesterday Rep Solomon has opposed this extension because he says it would subvert the intent of the law insteal of providing colleges with more time. However, if the law is to be carried out currently--it is only non-registrants who should be deprived of aid--not those who get caught in a bureaucratic snafu. In fact, Moynihan supports the bill but understands that if the Department of Education is going to do something, it should be done right...
...Soviets are, of course, mindful that West Germany is their principal Western trading partner. Annoying as he may have been to them, Kohl knew he was dealing from a position of strength, and he left no doubts about the thrust of West German foreign policy. Said a Soviet diplomat, with an air of resignation: "We have to put the emphasis on long-term relations despite the serious problem of the missiles...
...quit. He shied from sentiment as a "fatness of feeling" and recoiled from sex: "Coitus is the punishment for the happiness of being together." He could write only about what he knew, and what he knew were his dreams. "My talent for portraying my inner life," he noted, "has thrust all other matters into the background...