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Longshoremen in Holland, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, meanwhile, refused to handle Britain-bound cargo, and other dockers seemed likely to follow their example. In Northern Ireland, dockers attacked fishermen who had been running supplies of Irish bacon and eggs into Britain, dumping the goods into harbors and scattering them on beaches. As supplies of bananas, oranges, grapes and vegetables dwindled all over the United Kingdom, prices rose; some meat cost as much as a shilling (12?) a pound more. Dutch and Belgian truck farmers and shippers complained of losing millions of dollars. The government could, of course, use troops...
...House member from his state since the Reconstruction, is now in a tough primary battle with George Harrold Carswell, Nixon's rejected Supreme Court nominee. The winner's Democratic opponent will be chosen in a September primary. The election is for the seat of retiring Democrat Spessard Holland...
Everything about Alaska is extreme. It is physically as big as Texas, California and Montana combined?586,000 sq. mi. Just one of Alaska's scores of blue-green glaciers is the size of Holland; one wildlife preserve could hold Hungary. Alaska's 33,000-mile coastline doubles that of all the coterminous U.S. While Port Walter in the southern panhandle is flooded by 18 feet of annual rainfall, the wind-dried North Slope is an Arctic desert that gets only four inches of precipitation a year. At Fort Yukon in the vast central plateau region, temperatures plummet from 100?...
...singer of A Song of Joy is Miguel Rios, 26, a successful teeny-bopper idol in Spain who originally recorded it in Spanish, English and Italian. When A Song began popping up in Holland, Portugal, Chile, France and Canada, A & M Records bought the rights. "At first," says one company executive, "no one exactly went wild over it. But we kept listening, and we realized we had something very special...
...offering aid to North Viet Nam-and offered similar help to rebuild South Viet Nam after the war. He expressed his "tremendous sympathy" for the American prisoners in the North and promised to "pay special attention to the fate of the prisoners." As for the attacks on Ambassador Holland, Palme called them the work of "a lunatic fringe-scoundrels who damage the reputation of Sweden...