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...Marine Biologist Hirohito about scuba diving; attending a Kabuki play; lunching with 125 top celebrities of Japan, including Home Run King Sadaharu Oh, at the Imperial Palace. Jittery police cleared the streets of spectators for most of the President's trips around Tokyo, but Carter did journey to the port of Shimoda, where Commodore Perry's fleet called 125 years ago, for a "town meeting" with ordinary Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPEC's Painful Squeeze | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

Florida was coping adequately with gas needs until a truckers' strike last week blocked shipments from large storage areas in Port Everglades-and then the gas rush was on. By midweek there were virtually no stations open between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, one of the state's most heavily traveled routes, during the evening rush hour. Lines several miles long quickly developed in Miami, where waits stretched to as much as four hours amid sweltering temperatures. Radio stations broadcast warnings of line-blocked roads that should be avoided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hours of Waiting To Fill the Tank | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...Savimbi's 12,000 guerrillas freely roam the countryside, seizing towns and villages at will, disappearing when the Cubans or government troops appear. Savimbi's soldiers have shut down the vital Benguela railroad, which once carried ore from mines in Zaire and Zambia to the Atlantic Ocean port of Lobito. The disruption of rail service has given Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda no choice but to reopen his country's rail link with Rhodesia, the only alternative route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANGOLA: Guerrillas Who Will Not Give Up | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...support all this aerial activity, Moscow is completing two electronic eavesdropping complexes in Laos, and has started construction of a radar tracking center near Sisophon, in northwestern Cambodia. Soviet merchantmen ply between Vietnamese coast ports and the Cambodian port of Kompong Som on resupply missions. Submarines of the Soviet Pacific fleet glide in and out of the huge American-built complex at Cam Ranh Bay, even though it is not a full-fledged Soviet naval base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: The Soviets Settle In | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...prices $5 to $6 per bbl. A $60-million shipment of heating oil from the Caribbean to Rotterdam actually jumped $10 million in value during the week as nervous traders on both sides of the Atlantic bid against each other to acquire the precious cargo before the ship reached port...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Now the Heating Fuel Furor | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

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