Gunboats and Gas Romesh Thapar THOSE who have all along believed in the extraordinary scenario techniques of Super Power USA must really revise their ideas in a rather fundamental way. The antics of President Nixon and his battery of bright men suggest that the crudest and most underdeveloped thinking goes with the business or decision-making. How else can we explain the US posture in the United Nations and its ridiculous attempt to use the much advertised Seventh Fleet as a pressure weapon?