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...trying to buy time. The supplemental aid might allow the Phnom-Penh government to withstand the insurgents" siege until July, when the Mekong River, swollen by heavy rains, will overflow, making it difficult for fighting to continue at its current level. Washington believes that the Khmer insurgents, who have suffered heavy losses in the long assault on the capital, might recognize that it would be better to negotiate than to gird up for yet another bloody dry-season offensive in the autumn...
...industry also believes that it is necessary to ease some of the safety standards if prices are to be held in check and styling and efficiency improved. A main target is the regulation that took effect this year requiring front bumpers that can withstand a 5-m.p.h. impact. Says Murphy: "The extra weight and reduced fuel efficiency caused by those bumpers is costing customers a helluva lot more than it's benefiting them...
...Department of Transportation now agrees that the bumpers, which weigh 100 Ibs. or more, are not worth the cost. The DOT is proposing a rollback to the 1972 requirement-ability to withstand a 2.5-m.p.h. impact. Insurance companies, some Congressmen and several public interest groups, which contend that the stronger bumpers will hold down damage costs, oppose such a move. But they also maintain that the weighty, expensive bumpers U.S. carmakers are using are unnecessary. The bumper on the West German Opel, for instance, is as strong as the steel one on the new Ford Pinto, yet it weighs only...
...policy works as Ford hopes, sales would revive, unemployment would moderate and the nation would be much better able to withstand another cutoff of foreign oil, since Americans would be compelled by higher prices to reduce their prodigious waste of energy. But if the program fails, the consequences could be dire indeed. The $16 billion in rebates and tax credits might be too weak to jolt the economy out of its alarming slumpflation; in that case, the nation could suffer a prolonged agony of unemployment rates higher than any since before World War II. In addition, the higher prices...
...bring about the fall of Europe. The U.S. also might be influenced by the European desire to appease the oil producers. I see a period in which the free world will be in economic decline. This has its political and military implications in terms of readiness and determination to withstand Russian aggression, especially in the Middle East...