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...have set up cooperatives that take care of everything from buying their machinery to marketing their produce, which includes 80% of the world's supply of Parmesan cheese. New arrivals from the poverty-stricken south always find a party representative on hand at the railroad station or bus depot to point the way to a job, to housing or to party-run community centers with cut-rate bars and restaurants. Many of Italy's beaches are open sewers, but in Rimini, on Emilia-Romagna's Adriatic coast, swimmers enjoy waters kept clean by modern antipollution equipment...
...verge of naval domination. They have helped develop the Indian port of Visakhapatnam and are adapting it for the possible use of Soviet submarines. On South Yemen's island of Socotra, which dominates the approach to the Red Sea, they are constructing a naval radio station and ammunition depot. On Mauritius they have been given harbor facilities. In addition, the Russians have signed fishing agreements with at least ten nations, stretching from Egypt to Indonesia, and along the East African coast they have set up a string of buoys which could be used as rendezvous anchorages for supply...
Through his new friends in the Gezira Sporting Club, Lotz was able to set up a stable in the Abassiye Garrison and get a permanent pass to the camp. Later he trained his horses at a practice race track beside the armor depot near Heliopolis. All the while, he was relaying his gleanings back to Israel on a tiny transmitter he kept in a riding boot. Through German friends, he established that Egyptian rockets were not an immediate menace because their guidance systems were unreliable. He also learned that the Egyptians' HA-300 jet interceptora great worry...
...town's local maverick is Gregory Joannidi, former head of the local Democratic Club ("all six of us"). Joannidi owns the concessions at the San Clemente Greyhound bus depot, including the clothing store, a cafeteria and assorted pinball games. "These big shots, the President, Agnew, they mean nothing to me," Joannidi says. "All I know is I'm losing business." Joannidi's business comes from the Marines on weekend passes from nearby Camp Pendleton. When Nixon is in town, 1,000 fewer Marines get passes-allegedly the number kept on tap in case the President is attacked...
...trains' destination was the Military Ocean Terminal at Sunny Point, N.C., a sprawling, 8,500-acre depot that exists only to process ammunition. Each year 1.3 million tons of munitions pass through the base. So careful are the procedures that since 1955, when the base was completed, not a single man working there has lost his life...