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THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN DIGEST OF RECENT COMMENT (MON AM) JANUARY 14, 1974 ENERGY Sun says if there are shortages of other essentials and nations respond as W. Eur. has to e-crisis, "world is in for chaos That's why oil-consumers RN invited to DC would do well to come w/ cooperative plans in hand. 11 While US' "weakness" is suspicion that ''RN's seeking another internatl PR spectaculars" to distract from W'gate, these countries, "wallowing in their own domestic difficulties. know well enough the need for the RN initiative. 11 Sun says RN-HAK's program "may not be the only or best method of handling oil shortage, but it's only constructive initiative any govt's come up w/ so far. 11 Asserting "ill-famed" wheat deal taught US to "look twice before leaping" re: deals w/ Soviets, Boston Herald Amer questions deal to develop natural gas in USSR. If it goes thru, gas cost at wellhead would be $1.25-1.50 compared to 20 ¢ domestically. Thus, natural gas industry could make demands for higher prices more reasonably. 11 Herald Amer wonders why US wants to develop natural gas in USSR when we haven't developed own offshore fields. And "why rely on gas imported from only nation on earth militarily powerful enough to contest US. Are we tying a rope around US neck and handing loose end to a lynch mob? What makes Kremlin more trustworthy than Arabs? 11 asks the Herald Amer. Given Post's seeming obsession w/ RN's fuel usage at WWH, we note Women's Wear Daily reports that RN "issued strict orders" re: energy conservation at WWH, including reducing electrical power use by 15%-40%. "All external lighting, except that necessary for security, has been eliminated;" thermostats set at 68° ; and "hot water heater is set at 120° 11 CBS AM film on apparent decline in car traffic in NYC, tho there's been no significant change in pollution levels CBS AM film also on Chic's "ghost port, 11 Midway, which has suffered from flight cuts because of e-crisis. Midway wasn't very profitable anyhow, tho.