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...Rumania, officials were temporarily successful in stifling news of an outburst of violent labor unrest in the nation's southwest, but last week letters from strikers describing the disturbances reached the West. Some 35,000 miners from the Jiul River basin, which provides 70% of the country's coal supply, went on strike in early August to protest food shortages, unpaid overtime work and a reduction of pension and sickness benefits. The walkout was by far the largest in Rumania since the Communist takeover...
...need to tell it to the Maltese. Their country is darkly threatening to play the mouse that roared. Already last week its delegates were waxing eloquent about the need to demilitarize the Mediterranean and turn it into a neutral basin-presumably after they have dispatched the Sixth Fleet back across the Atlantic...
Generations of G.I.s have learned to use the bowl-shaped M1 combat helmet as a hammer for tent stakes, a shaving basin and a stew pot -as well as, of course, a means of protection. But the old "wobble pot" is also literally a pain in the neck. It comes in only one size (with adjustable liner), feels like a ton (actual weight: 3 Ibs. 4 oz.) and a soldier has to hold it on when he runs. At last, relief is in sight. The U.S. Army Research and Development Command at Natick, Mass., is field-testing a new design...
...Caribbean basin Mostly poor, politically volatile, dominated by a number of left-leaning politicians, the island nations comprise a modest bloc of about a dozen U.N. votes. Carter aims to increase economic assistance to the Caribbean area (current aid total: $65 million a year...
...Brown, say the pipeline that Sohio wants to use is needed to bring in natural gas from Mexico. They also protest that the use of Long Beach as a transfer terminal for Alaskan oil would add to the already bad air and water pollution problem in the Los Angeles basin. Although no refining will take place in the area, critics of the Long Beach plan say that just shipping the oil through there will add to pollution: tankers continually emit fumes, sometimes spill oil, and will inevitably have accidents...