European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes february 1978 inferno on a Manhattan rooftop York Cuy firemen ill eld them jul Civet from flames Bunting through a intelligence study rooftop Hole Cut by the ire men to fight an Early morning Blaze in the tire left five firemen and three apartment residents a soviets facing Energy crunch Buciur fwu Washington up the soviet i is entering an period of iced growth faces an Oil i Energy crisis thai could have wide j internal and International effects pursues a military buildup which aggravates the situation us appeared to be the consensus in a of a highly detailed intelligence Given in secret to a joint Cong res Learine and released Friday in a b sanitized version which spoke vol i of painstaking analysis and Intelli at sessions of the joint eat committee last june and july were Stansfield Cia director Samuel then head of the intelligence and a coterie arts from their Ana other govern agencies and also from outside re nth general except on said the soviets will face an economic Aid Energy crunch in the 1880s thai will peripheral effects in almost every we think the soviet Union is entering a period of reduced growth due first to bottlenecks in key especially crude but also to a near cer Tain contraction in he growth of their Supply of Turner told the commit the Basic problem is that the formula for maintaining their level of growth Over the past 25 years which has been to in crease the inputs of labor and capital to make up for the inet Fidenco in the Way they utilize them does not appear to us to have Lon term he they Are not going to be Able to continue to do this Over the next 10 Turner cited these factors up to 30 percent of the soviet Gross National product currently goes into Capi Tal As a we think Moscow is going to be confronted with some very difficult policy Espe daily involving Energy imparts from the relations Wilh Eastern Europe the Gnu growth has been declining from an average or about s percent in the 1960s to about percent in this Narbert Oia operations re search said the growth rate May the in the an expected Sharp drop in the rate of growth of the labor Force beginning in the Hie derives from a decline in the birthrate in the 1960s and will become much More acute by the Isbos when the working age popu lation will grow less than on half of f per cent a further complication is that labor will have to be recruited from the ethnic minorities of Central Asia who Welsh wrong Hon Kong London up the daily Mirror has relayed the disappointment of Welsh be Beatrice Plait who bought a typically Welsh gift in a Welsh boutique Lor her grandson in Hon Kong and discovered that where it had been do not readily move to the Labo Short Northern Industrial looming Oil in the so vie i were the largest Oil producer in the world Wilh some million barrels a Turner production is expected to Peak in the Early 1980s and drop Wilh a severe Impact to Between 8 and 10 million barrels a they Are getting most of their Oil West of the he they Are still Lap Ping those Fields and also a very giant Field East of the urals called Samot Lor in West Era they Are still tapping the ural Volga area but it is running Down and they Are having to move progressively farther Turner said the Samot Lor Field la expected to Peak in about a year or two and the soviets will have logo either offshore in the North or farther out into Siberia in in hospitable climate and with major trans Perallon compounding the situation Are soviet Export now running at 3 million barrels of Oil a about 1 million barrels of this has been going to heavily dependent Eastern bloc nations with the rest going to countries paying in hard and soft currencies vitally needed for Machin Ery and other so what 1 am getting said that they Are going to be pressed either to meet their own Domestic requirements for a growing or to Supply the Eastern europeans As or to get the hard currency Exchange to buy tech Nolgy and other goods from the West they have a crunch in one of those three Usa eur aviators plan convention Heidelberg the Usa eur Region of the army aviation association of America Kaaa will hold its annual convention at Garmisch april George Usa eur and seventh army will present Usa eur Region Faaalo the outstanding aviation aviator and unit of the year Al an awards banquet on april the convention is open to All army aviation a Blan Chard message of encourages participation and authorizes administrative absence from military duties for personnel u Gen Neucom director of logistics and Security As president of Usa Reuh is to conjunction Wilh the convention will begin on april i Hukom those wishing to attend should Contact unit or local Kaaa chapter for reservations no later than 28 1978 bus plane bargain worked ouf Washington world1 adding extra Appeal to its for transcontinental air fares Una Friday announced it is teaming u greyhound for the nations first com bus plane budget travel the airline said civil aeronautics delays in acting on its proposal la a new increase in the planned of fare from coast to boost net 189 to f 99 to cover increases in fuel a spokesman for world said the Al is amending its cab proposal Lorall silk new Price and to include the with under the greyhound Cial bus routes would link 33 world terminals in the Newy los Angeles and san metropolitan travellers could we one ticket for bind bus and air travel and Luggage straight through from to plane to bus its the first into Rhoda that has Ever come said the it turns out but Lias been trying to interest Al Klimt for w but Hast been Able until officials said the bus air plan hat endorsed by such consumer National association of re Consumers Union and he league of die a charter first scheduled Lowlor transcontinental ii years setting the fare 1 and raging it in uts u rejected the proposal in 1971 after a court Challenge to plan 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