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'Energy in Soviet Policy: A Study Prepared for the Use of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States."
Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. 179 pp. $4.50.
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency startled the world in 1977 pre- dicting that oil output in the Soviet Union, the world's largest producer, would soon peak; the communist world, said the agency, would become a major petroleum importer by 1985. The CIA has backed o...

In early 1778, midway between the The remedy was on its way. As
beginning of the American Revolu- early as 1776, the French had been
tion at Lexington and Concord and secretly supplying more than 90 per-
its military climax at the Battle of cent of the young American rebel
Yorktown, the American struggle army's gunpowder and many of its
was faltering. "Our affairs," wrote muskets, cannon, uniforms, and
General George Washington, "are in tents.
a more distressed, ruinous,...

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