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Poland's Communist Party Chief Edward Gierek arrives in Washington this week for an eight-day state visit, bringing with him a reputation as one of the East bloc's shrewdest leaders. Since 1970, when dock workers' strikes over high food prices brought him to the head of the ruling Polish United Workers' Party, Gierek has overseen booming economic development and the evolution of the Warsaw Pact countries' most politically permissive society. Relying heavily on foreign credits (and risking what he hopes will be temporary trade deficits), Gierek has purchased huge amounts of Western technology...
Richard Nixon's illness was to be as secretive as his presidency. Accompanied by Pat and Julie, he walked briskly into Long Beach Memorial Hospital Medical Center through a truck-dock entrance leading to the kitchens. Surprised by two hunch-playing reporters, he blurted a confused "Good morning-good afternoon." He went on up to his sixth-floor suite, located in a twelve-room wing that had been cleared of other patients to ensure his security and privacy. Then once again, the doors closed on the outside world...
...during the fact." Thus no one in Congress knows in advance about potentially controversial CIA operations. Complains Democratic Representative Michael J. Harrington of Massachusetts: "There is a studied inclination in Congress toward noninvolvement, superimposed on a pattern of deference toward the Executive Branch. If the Executive is in the dock, you have...
...half as much as last year, and two-thirds less than the record 8.6 million tons moved in 1971. Patrick J. Sullivan, secretary-treasurer of the Great Lakes district of the International Longshoremen's Association, asserts that less than one-third of the 7,000 longshoremen working lake docks have been close to adequately employed this year. "Last year," says P. George Bechtold, a Chicago terminal company official, "we had 53 vessels dock at our facility at Lake Calumet. You know how many we have had there this year? Zilch...
About the only hope for the Great Lakes is that long-divided dock workers, terminal operators and port authorities have formed an alliance to remedy some problems that are not rooted in the very nature of the seaway. They are asking the U.S. Maritime Administration for the same subsidies that are collected by the coastal shipping interests that compete with them. They also want moderation of the "Ship American" policy, which is mandated by the Merchant Marine...