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Almost immediately, police and soldiers cordoned off the plane in the airport's cargo area. The terrorists allowed the wounded purser off the plane for medical treatment; the body of their dead companion was also unloaded...
...Swap technology on transportation. Some obvious topics: Soviet experience in cold-weather railroad operation and new underground mass transit systems; U.S. expertise in highway engineering and cargo containerization...
Indonesia and the Philippines face the worst shortages, but wealthier Hong Kong and Singapore also are hard put to find supplies. Prices have rocketed to $325 a ton, almost four times the 1971 world price. Along with gold and other valuable cargo, smugglers are carrying rice as they ply to Singapore from Indonesia, where rice prices...
...workers labored round the clock to put the finishing touches on the new tiled-roof limestone compound that will house the mission (temporary headquarters have been set up in a diplomatic apartment building until the building is completed in early June). Peking permitted the U.S. to fly in two cargo planes from Guam loaded with furniture, cars, appliances and supplies-causing considerable surprise and some resentment among other members of the diplomatic community who have been denied similar requests...
Salyut was not the only source of problems for Russian rocketeers. Four weeks ago a giant Proton booster - the largest Soviet rocket - apparently failed during liftoff, sending its payload crashing into the Pacific off eastern Siberia. U.S. space observers believe that the cargo, destined for the moon, included an improved version of the highly successful Soviet lunar rover...