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...Army, operating in the French-speaking province. Its aim is to blast Quebec free from the rest of English-speaking Canada and set up an independent nation. In the past year the terrorists have dynamited army installations, planted time bombs in mailboxes, and now they are stealing guns. Total haul so far: 92 rifles, 30 submachine guns, three antitank bazookas, four field mortars, 17,200 rounds of ammunition...
...almost all the $10 million worth of dried-fruit shipments from Greece and Turkey to Europe by cutting rates from $16 per ton to $9." They have knocked $6 per ton off the price of shipping cotton, $4 per ton off the rate for iron ore. The Poles will haul steel beams from Benelux ports to Cairo for $1.30 less per ton than West European lines; the East Germans won a contract to deliver 25,000 Dutch TV sets to Syria with a bid nearly 60% lower than any other...
...were bad enough, but perhaps even worse was a 48-hour disruption of construction at the Cape Kennedy (nee Canaveral) space complex, where 3,500 workers refused to cross picket lines set up by the strikers. The railroad has a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to haul heavy building materials to the cape. As a result of the picketing, 30 projects worth $200 million were closed down, including construction of the site where the Saturn rocket moon shot will be assembled...
...measurement (low-tide mark, land mass, mud flats?), and jurisdictional claims are being contested on 20% of the Louisiana tracts. Until the point is determined, contested royalties go into escrow. But the question of ownership scarcely bothers the oil companies, which have settled down for a long haul. To eliminate barge hauling, they have already laid a whole network of pipes on the Gulf floor to carry oil and natural gas to onshore refineries...
Hardest Pinch. Some defense companies insist that continued international tensions and the need for ever newer weapons will make any severe defense cuts impossible over the long haul. The Pentagon argues that major cuts are possible, points out that heavy spending to develop basic weapons systems is over and that further outlays will be mainly for modifications to update them...