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...superefficient railroad system. To a degree, the image is justified. The futuristic Shinkansen, or "bullet" trains, whisk passengers as far as 735 miles from Tokyo to Fukuoka City in the southernmost main island of Kyushu in six hours flat amid plush comfort. That trip costs only $31.15 for a one-way economy-class ticket with a $20.70 surcharge for first-class...
...Israelis say they spend $ 15 million a year on various measures to maintain El Al's security. On the ground, El Al is more demanding than most airlines in screening passengers for the traits and psychological characteristics -nervousness, one-way tickets-that fit the skyjacker's "profile." Doubtful passengers are refused tickets. Those boarding El Al planes can be subjected to the most thorough baggage and body searches in the industry. Far from resenting such searches, report airline officials, most passengers are happy to undergo them for the sake of security...
Earlier in yesterday's meeting the CHUL rejected motions allowing one-to-one switches and one-way transfers by votes of 20-11 and 21-8 before voting to reaffirm its support of the transfer freeze...
...Ford's defeat. He cockily campaigned for only two days in North Carolina, v. twelve for Reagan, and did not bother taking any polls to weigh voting trends. Reagan also blanketed the state, where conservatives abound, with a TV and radio barrage that battered at detente as a "one-way street" and at U.S. military strength as "second best...
...charges that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is soft on the Soviets have reached a peak in recent weeks. Longtime Administration critics and a clutch of presidential candidates have damned détente as a one-way street; the U.S., they claimed, has been bulldozed by the Russians. President Ford reacted by replacing the word détente in the diplomatic vocabulary with "peace through strength." All U.S. embassies were advised that the change was no mere wordplay; the U.S. was indeed taking a tougher stand...