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...gift to the people who will live in it. Like all the homelands to which black South Africans are assigned, it contains no industry, no mineral deposits and little fertile land. Unlike the other bantustans, the Transkei does have a coastline, but it has no port through which to import or export goods...
Majority rule is also a new goal for Kissinger. Until recently he accepted the Byrd Amendment, which allows U. S. corporations to import Rhodesian chrome, in violation of U.N. sanctions. Even after he publicized his opposition to the Amendment last summer, the Ford Administration did very little to actually get it repealed. Nor has Kissinger done anything to press for prosecution of U. S. businesses like Mobil Oil that have broken the boycott illegally...
Several people waiting on the steps for services were skeptical of the import of the turnout and spoke of "high holy day Jews" attending religious ceremonies for the only time this year. Posner, however, said he believed the characterization was true of only a third of those attending...
...Munford, Inc., which has its headquarters in Atlanta, expects to ring up sales as high as $350 million this year, v. $273 million last year. The company operates two chains of stores: the 1,400 MAJIK "convenience" stores (open late into the night) and 90 World Bazaar stores selling imported goods. Even so Munford ranks behind two other Southern-based firms in both major areas of its business. The biggest convenience-store chain is Southland (the 7-Eleven stores) based in Dallas; the biggest import chain is Pier 1 with head offices in Fort Worth...
...patrolman rolled down his window, shook the man's hand, and began to converse heatedly with him, long after the light ahead of him had changed. Middle-Eastern music blared from "A Nubian Notion," an import variety store across the street. Other drivers behind him began honking their horns, and so the officer moved...