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...crews have loaded or unloaded 64 ships, more than they normally see in a year. Much of the cargo is simply moved to vacant lots until it can be hauled to the U.S. Some 3,700 Volkswagens sit bumper to bumper atop a cliff overlooking the sea. Though all manual labor must be performed by Mexicans-a union rule that now helps Ensenadans earn a total of $40,000 a day-U.S. firms have sent dozens of representatives to oversee the operation. Says Captain D.W. Cowan of Prudential-Grace Lines' San Francisco office: "We have enough people...
...documents are authentic or not, they have already played a significant role in the election by providing an acceptable reason for Big Minh to withdraw. Even if they prove to be no more than an ingenious fabrication designed to discredit the Thieu regime, the instructions constitute a thorough manual on how to manipulate a national election. And there is one strong argument for their authenticity: some of the measures they recommend for the months leading up to the election have already been taken...
Photocopies of duplicate registration cards made out to a single voter showed how a good pro-government man could make not just one but two trips to the ballot box. Opposition voters could be dealt with in several ways. The manual suggested "dividing the opposition by buying off their leaders," and "arresting elements considered as pro-Communist." Then again, one could always "blackmail a person with a scar"-meaning a person with an unsavory background as a smuggler, say, or a habitue of brothels...
...deals with damage done by such natural disasters as hurricanes and earthquakes. Last week OEP suddenly found itself handling the results of a man-made storm for which it was decidedly unprepared. Without warning, President Nixon plucked the tiny agency out of the anonymity of the U.S. Government Organization Manual to supervise the wage-price freeze...
Nader's Center for Auto Safety has been concerned with the protection of consumers of automotive products and recently published What To Do About Your Bad Car: A Manual for Lemon-Owners...