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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tanks. Two years ago, the Eritrean forces had no vehicles at all; they relied on hundreds of camels for transporting supplies and ammunition and for evacuating their wounded. Today they have trucks, Land Rovers, an ambulance and two tanks, most of them hijacked from the Ethiopians. The Eritreans have learned to combat Ethiopian airpower effectively with everything from rifles and machine guns to captured missiles and conventional antiaircraft guns. In the territory they control, the rebels run schools, clinics, plantations and even small factories. At present, they are engaged in an all-out offensive to capture what they...
Once inside Eritrea, we traveled cross-country, mostly by Land Rover, often at night. It was necessary for two people to drive-one at the wheel, the other calling out the terrain ahead or shouting out the depths of a river in the manner of Mark Twain...
...will require. Unlike Laker, whose stripped-down service will not include meals, drinks or movies, both Pan Am and TWA plan to offer their discount passengers all the economy-class amenities, perhaps at a small surcharge over the Skytrain price for some of them. Also, both American carriers land at Lon don's convenient Heathrow Airport; Laker's planes use Stansted Airport, 45 miles from the city. During peak sea son (June 1-Sept. 14), Skytrain will fly eleven times weekly-and for the remainder of the year only once a day-but Pan Am and TWA have...
Says Lehndorff's U.S. general manager, M. Thomas Lardner: "The enthusiasm of the Europeans for U.S. farm land is unbelievable." In Houston, Banker Richard Reneberg complains that "a problem we're faced with is coming up with enough good property to satisfy foreign investors...
...about how she had an opportunity to make a bundle on Japanese automobiles imported to Indonesia. At first the results were impressive. One woman gave her $5,000 and made a $12,260 profit within a year. She then got some friends to put up $15,000 for a land deal in Spain; seven months later, they were paid back $26,325-a 75.5% profit. Says she: "It was a lark-it was like Monopoly money." As word of Adela's business acumen spread, people clamored to invest in her ventures, which until recently she ran from her home...