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...Boeing vehicles have a history of instability, derailments, and mechanical problems, State Rep. Lincoln P. Cole Jr., Vice Chairman of the MBTA's advisory board, said yesterday. Problems with the LRVs' stability and jumping the tracks made them originally a "bad deal," Cole added...
...High Commissioner to Australia in 1956. Three years later, he was named to the prestigious post of First Lord of the Admiralty. He served as Secretary of Defense and later was Secretary of Energy in the 1970-74 Tory government headed by Edward Heath. Carrington, who was also chairman of the Conservative Party at that time, earned the nickname of "Superhawk" by urging Heath to take a strong stand against the striking unions. It proved to be a disastrous strategy and helped pave the way for the Tories' 1974 electoral defeat. But the experience taught him some valuable political...
...fear that their views are shared by millions of educated young people in China who have thus far only dared to dream or to whisper of their desires for freedom. Many of these educated youths seem to believe that for China to become a truly modern country with what Chairman Hua Guofeng has called "liveliness of mind," democratic rights are not a luxury but a necessity. In one of its issues, the April Fifth Forum asked: "Why have Chinese in China demonstrated so few accomplishments while they win Nobel Prizes once they go abroad?" The Forum's answer...
Although he philosophically opposes any windfall levy, Louisiana's Russell Long, the Finance Committee chairman who is the floor leader of the Senate debate, says the tax is the political cost that the energy industry must pay in order to end crude oil controls. Long, who himself has extensive oil holdings, argues further that the nation can no longer afford a witch hunt against the petroleum companies. Last week he told a cheering Manhattan meeting of energy producers: "Those who defame us, curse us, abuse us and lie about us, would be in one hell of a fix without...
Officially, as the Russians and their East European satellites see it, inflation is a disease unique to capitalism. "With the exception of the war years," triumphs Nikolai Glushkov, chairman of the Soviet State Committee on Prices, "there has never been any inflation in the U.S.S.R., nor does any exist today." Now let us all laugh, comrades. The East bloc, like the West, is suffering a severe dose of rapidly rising consumer prices. It is not called inflation but "an adjustment in the state pricing structure." Inflation by any other name stinks as badly...