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...Bruce required a whole vessel to himself and another for the men who handled his controls. There were additional boats for the camera crew and the actors, supply boats, an old ferry from Chappaquiddick. They made the journey six days a week, through the summer and into autumn. Some days they would come back with no film at all. The daily departure began to look like a cortege...
...outsiders jam into Alaska, the communities on the pipeline are simply being overwhelmed. In 17 months Valdez's population has trebled, to 3,600; it is expected to bulge to 10,000 by autumn. Prices in the Valdez Market, the one grocery, are one-third higher than those in Anchorage-if there is anything on the shelves to buy. Housing has become so tight in Valdez that the monthly rent for one two-bedroom apartment recently jumped from $286 to $1,600. The sewage system is overloaded, children are attending school in makeshift classrooms, and traffic snarls the muddy...
Normally, such a pro-Palestinian move would anger Israel, but Jerusalem largely ignored it. Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government was relieved that Kissinger and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had agreed at their Vienna meeting to delay any reconvening of the Geneva talks until autumn. One Foreign Ministry spokesman said: "This will relieve the pressure and allow a politically useful and militarily quiet summer...
...difficult for fighting to continue at its current level. Washington believes that the Khmer insurgents, who have suffered heavy losses in the long assault on the capital, might recognize that it would be better to negotiate than to gird up for yet another bloody dry-season offensive in the autumn...
Last October the airline painfully negotiated a $125 million revolving credit with a consortium of 36 U.S. banks. The credit expires this autumn, and it was widely expected that Pan Am would have trouble renewing it without some form of government guarantee or operating subsidy. But such federal underwriting would surely run into considerable resistance in Congress; Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire has already voiced opposition to making Pan Am "the nation's largest welfare recipient." Pan Am's financial troubles have also impeded its search for a merger partner...