Volume 21, Number 5 · April 4, 1974
Concocting the Next "Crisis"
By Emma Rothschild
The darkest consequence of oil diplomacy, in America, is a political language, a premonition. Already the world energy crisis has brought threatening changes in US economic policy. These changes are evident in Kissinger's and Nixon's plans for 'energy independence.' But the new policies go beyond oil commerce to world trade in all materials, promising conflict in wheat and copper, metals and minerals.
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