The gas-pipeline deal planned between the Soviet Union and several Western European countries has met with objections from the US government, which fears that Western Europe could be politically blackmailed as a result of its increasing dependence on energy supplies from the USSR. Are these...

Shortages of fuels and raw materials had been pre dicted for the world not before the turn of the century, and even experts were surprised that a situation of general undersupply arrived so soon. As there is little scope for substitution, and the currency system of the world is in peril,...