Word: deadweights
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...change primary run-off rules in the South that have barred Black candidacies; revising procedures would send racist Southern whites charging into the arms of the Republican Party, we're told. So what? That might be a blessing in disguise for the Democrats, who, shorn of their deadweight right wing, might be free to evolve into a truly progressive group. Yes, they might lose a few elections, but they'd stand a far better chance in the longer term of creating a new majority and affecting the country's destiny for the better...
...Lean Years, Barnet writes that the same situation led to Carter's down-the-wire support of the deadweight Shah of Iran in 1978. In the midst of Tehran riots, the director of the National Foreign Estimate of the CIA, Robert Bowie, appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to give an optimistic report...
...President's position swung full circle since he backed the deadweight Shah in the showdown in Iran a few months ago. In an act of rare decisiveness, Carter made it clear to President Anastasio Somoza that despite his appeals, the only aid he could hope for from the U.S. was as a refuge...
...Coast Guard has made some cautious efforts to use its authority to set safety standards. Last month, for example, it ruled the new tankers of more than 70,000 deadweight tons would have to have segregated ballast systems-set up so that no oil is dumped when ballast tanks are emptied-to be admitted to U.S. ports. Still the Coast Guard concedes that it has followed "a gradualism type of approach" on matters of tanker safety, as Admiral Owen Siler, the Coast Guard commandant, put it in Senate Commerce committee hearings last week. Some maritime experts argue that the Coast...
...Polish thrust is not yet a major threat to the better-known shipyards of Bremen, Clydeside and Yokohama. The country still ranks only twelfth in gross registered tonnage among shipbuilding nations. But Poland's annual output has risen 50% just since 1970, to 750,000 deadweight tons, and shipbuilding has become the country's second largest earner of foreign currency, after coal. Polish shipbuilding has become one of the few Communist bloc industries ca pable of competing in the West on straight commercial terms. Capitalist nations last year bought almost $200 million worth of Polish ships, about half...