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...stolen good included $3 million in American money being flown from Frankfurt, Germany, to the Chase Manhattan bank here. Jewels were also stolen, according to a policeman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operaters the airport...
...will write the history of what you guys believed in." The gunmen paused. Then one said, "Fine." The ready-to-die cultists hugged both lawyers. Lane had another apt thought. "Is there any way out?" he asked. The armed men pointed into the bush and said the road to Port Kaituma lay in that direction. The attorneys plunged into the jungle. As they fled, they heard Jones shouting...
TIME Correspondent Neff arrived on the scene in the same Cessna that had flown away from the gunfire at Port Kaituma. He reported...
Even as tragedy struck in the Trengganu estuary, another refugee drama, that of the harborless freighter Hai Hong, was coming to a gradual, troubled end. Jammed with 2,500 refugees, the 1,600-ton Hai Hong arrived off Malaysia near Port Kelang on Nov. 9 after two weeks at sea. The government refused to let the ship dock. It would not allow food, water and medicine to be sent to the freighter until last week, when France, Canada and the U.S. agreed to help resettle all aboard. The Malaysian government still will not permit the refugees stranded on the overcrowded...
...riots, economic troubles were brewing. The quadrupling of oil prices in 1973-74 gave Iran many extra billions of dollars, but its heady expansion went too fast. By 1976 the government was borrowing against expected oil profits in order to spend nearly $50 billion a year on military hardware, port expansions, roads, railways, electric-power grids and new industries. Though supply bottlenecks were common, prices were soaring and commercial bribery was a fact of life, the crunch did not come until the weakening world demand for oil began cutting into funds that the government had already borrowed and spent...