Word: islander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only radioactive waste disposal site in the East equipped to handle the sludge that university labs were sending their way. Closed it down, that is, to everybody but South Carolina and its neighboring states. Then the word floated up through the tobacco fields and hit Cambridge like Three Mile Island hit the folks at Babcock and Wilcox. One official in the Northeast called down to once-amiable Barnwell and tried to get them to change their minds. "We're not even third cousins anymore," came the curt reply...
...happened, conclusive evidence was being collected that very day by a U2. What the photography showed was that two new barracks, administrative buildings and recreation faculties had quickly risen on the island, including a soccer field. In my eyes this stamped it indelibly as a Russian base, since as an old soccer fan I knew Cubans rarely played soccer...
...Soviets' reply was clearly positive. After my press statement, construction of port facilities ceased. But nothing with the Soviets ever works this simply. The Soviet sub tender and salvage tug left Cienfuegos on Oct. 10, but rounded the island and arrived once again in Cienfuegos on Nov. 7. I protested angrily to Dobrynin on Nov. 14 and told him later that servicing submarines in or from Cuban ports would "lead to the most grave situation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union...
...plaguing the nation's overburdened crop distribution system at a time when bin-busting harvests and a high export demand augur a booming farm economy. Since late August the United Transportation Union and the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks have halted operations on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, which serves 1,680 grain elevators in the Midwest. And for almost three months a strike by the American Federation of Grain Millers has closed the 13 huge grain elevators in the port of Duluth-Superior, stopping 10% of all U.S. grain exports...
President Carter declared last week that the strike against the Rock Island was causing severe economic disruption. This meant that he was able to invoke a 60-day cooling-off period under the National Labor Relations Act and send the strikers back to their jobs while a three-member emergency board reviews the dispute, although there were signs that the workers would refuse the order. At the same time, Carter requested that the Interstate Commerce Commission issue a "directed service order" telling other rail companies to operate Rock Island equipment over its rights-of-way. The grain millers' strike...