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Some countries are trying novel approaches to meet their water needs. Saudi Arabia has contracted with a French firm to study the feasibility of towing an iceberg from Antarctica to a Red Sea port, where it could be melted for its fresh water. Elsewhere, more conventional methods are being used to increase the supply of usable water. Among them...
...Port Authority's verdict could seal the fate of the 1,400-m.p.h. SST, which the French and British regard as a historic technological triumph. One French aviation expert warns that rejection by New York "would kill the Concorde." Concerned that the Port Authority was about to do just that, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing phoned President Carter last week to warn that banning Concorde could "provoke a very grave crisis in French-American relations...
...aviation] market would be hostile to anything that would not keep it this way." French newspapers and magazines picked up the conspiracy theme-with hysterical abandon. Paris Match, for example, last week breathlessly exposed "The Plot Against Concorde." With French opinion whipped to fever pitch as the Port Authority's deadline neared, U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Rush, who supports the Concorde, considered bolting the steel shutters on the embassy's windows in case of violence...
...went underground in the cities while a small faction, led by the then little-known Mao Tse-tung, began a long effort to establish revolutionary bases in remote areas of the Chinese countryside. Meanwhile Chiang Ch'ing, a floundering actress, apprentice playwright and intellectually restless, went to the port city of Tsingtao and made contact with Communist Party members...
...worth of stolen goods and fined $100; two years later, again in Medford, police seized Bailey with $700 worth of hot merchandise. This time he was fined $200 and given two years' probation. Then in 1973 Bailey was arrested while filching 31 record albums from a store in Port Huron, Mich. Convicted of larceny and sentenced to up to four years. Bailey posted bond pending an appeal, which had to be made within 60 days. Legal maneuvers dragged on, and Bailey went home to Rhode Island...