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...Harvard Victory, a cargo ship built in 1945, has left the moth-ball fleet for the Vietnam...
...treaty with the U.S., greeted the pact as a welcome oseibo (year-end gift). Tapping New York, said JAL President Shizuma Matsuo, "means the greatest aviation right in the world." In return, Japan gave up its unused rights to fly to Seattle and to carry West Coast passengers and cargo to Central and South America, will allow U.S. airlines to serve Osaka, Japan's second largest city and the site for the 1970 World's Fair. Japan also agreed to drop its recent restriction on U.S. all-cargo flights through Tokyo...
...Europe, the U.S.S.R. has just closed two other deals. Italy's Olivetti announced last week that it will advise the Russians about how to mechanize their huge bureaucracies, sell them office machines ranging from typewriters to calculators. Greek Shipping Magnate Achilles Franghistas agreed to buy 33 Soviet-built cargo ships. The terms: $76 million in long-term credit, $29 million in increased Soviet purchases of farm produce-a welcome outlet for Greece's agricultural surpluses...
...only unloading ocean vessels, but getting supplies out where they are needed. With a large part of South Viet Nam's road and rail transportation out of commission, most goods must be moved up the coast in World War II LSTs, which are able to disgorge their cargo in shallow water right on the beach. Currently only 14 LSTs, manned largely by Japanese, are available to do the job. But last week the Pentagon was weighing a contract with Vancouver's Alaska Barge & Transport Co. to put its oceangoing tugs and barges to work in Viet Nam waters...
...embargo subjects violators to maximum legal penalties of six months in jail and a $1,400 fine. The U.S. "welcomed and supported" the move, promised to ask U.S. companies and citizens to voluntarily comply. The London headquarters of Royal Dutch/Shell ordered the 20,000-ton tanker Staberg, carrying a cargo of Shell oil destined for Rhodesia to the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, to change its course...