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...industrial Northeast has long been a pillar of the Democrats' national strength. The party maintained that stronghold in last week's election, despite some important Republican victories. One issue that tilted a number of races was resentment of widespread statehouse corruption...
...that his opponent is totally incompetent or dangerous. Rep. Michael J. Harrington '58 (D-Mass.) admits that King has the "instincts of a soup-kitchen general for the Salvation Army," but on the other hand he thinks Massachusetts could use such a man to spur economic development in the northeast. Harrington's point is that King is a hustler, and that the state needs someone like him, even if he is going to run everyone over to get what he wants...
According to Zambian planners, the economic failure should not have occurred. As it happened, the Chinese, eager for an African foothold, had already granted a $460 million interest-free loan to Zambia and neighboring Tanzania to finance a new 1,160-mile rail link running northeast from Zambia's copper mines to Tanzania's Indian Ocean port of Dar es Salaam. The project, built by 51,000 Chinese and African laborers, was first called the Great Uhuru (Swahili for freedom) Railway, renamed Tazara (for Tanzania-Zambia Railway) and was completed in 1976. Tazara should have provided Zambia with...
...Rhodesian fighter-bombers circled over Chikumbi for nearly 45 minutes. According to Nkomo, 226 men were killed and 629 were wounded in the attack on the base, which housed nearly 3,000 unarmed civilians as well as ZAPU fighters. Two hours later, Rhodesian forces struck another camp at Mkushi, northeast of Lusaka, killing at least 50 guerrillas...
...nation's largest rail system, Conrail has annual revenues of $3.3 billion, 90,000 employees and 34,000 miles of track crisscrossing the Northeast, stretching west to Missouri and north to Canada. Though most of its business is freight, it also carries 360,000 commuters each weekday to New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Chicago. For all these superlatives, Conrail continues to hemorrhage money because its equipment was in worse shape and its labor force was more featherbedded than almost anyone in Washington had suspected...