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...circuitry and discovering diseased crops. It has even trapped smugglers. Equipped with a thermograph, border police in one Middle Eastern country found unusual heat coming from one area of a water-tank truck. An immediate inspection revealed that part of the cargo was indeed hot; it was a huge haul of hashish...
...that neither came from the missing plane. The Soviets, obviously distressed at the loss of an expensive piece of strategic equipment, rushed eight Tu-95 reconnaissance bombers into the area to join the search. The AN-22, which made its debut in experimental form in 1965, was developed to haul heavy equipment to frontier areas. Until the U.S. C-5A was introduced in 1968, it held the world record for lifting off air cargo...
Last winter and spring, the French Maoists firmly established themselves on the outer fringes of the lunatic left with a series of riots, bomb attacks and a daring caviar and foie gras heist in broad daylight at Fauchon, the epicures' haul grocery of Paris. Next, one of their leaders, Alain Geismar, 26, advised that they make it a "hot summer for the bourgeoisie." Shortly before he was hauled off to jail for inciting riots, Geismar made a tape recording in which he urged his comrades to camp in the gardens of private villas, picnic on golf greens and convert...
...that limited score, the Cambodian venture was indeed a success. In eight weeks of concentrated scrounging, U.S. troops hauled off or destroyed mountains of painstakingly hidden Communist supplies. Estimates of the haul range up to 50% of the Communists' entire stockpile in eastern Cambodia...
...Penn Central's passenger service has been a particular plague. The railroad still runs 1,280 passenger trains a day-35% of the nation's total and 75% of the remaining long-haul sched-u'es. By Penn Central accounting, round-trip income from one New York-St. Louis train, for example, recently averaged $5,295 a day; but wages and other operating costs ran to $10,191. To pare such losses, the Penn Central two months ago petitioned the ICC to end all passenger service west of Buffalo, N.Y., and Harrisburg, Pa. Indignant protests from localities...