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...fastest to find jobs. Says James Chandler, a State Department liaison officer at Eglin: "I thought the fishermen would be the hardest group to place, but there is a demand for them all the way from Florida to Texas." Last week 25 fishermen and their families flew to Port Isabel, Texas, where Isbell Seafood, Inc. will put them on its 21 shrimp boats...
...heat on a bumpy dirt runway, they set off immediately to inspect the area. A U.S. technician scrambled atop one of nine newly built fuel-storage tanks and whipped out binoculars for a better view. Another sifted through refuse in a men's room at the port, looking for Soviet cigarette butts. The Russians at Berbera, of whom there may be as many as 1,000, were obviously under instructions to keep out of sight during the Americans' visit. One Russian at what was apparently a radio tower hid his head in a towel when he spotted...
Testifying before Congress recently, U.S. Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger disclosed that the Soviets were building an important missile facility at the Somali port of Berbera. Although Schlesinger backed up his charge by releasing U.S. reconnaissance photos of the Berbera buildup, the Somali government denied the accusation and invited U.S. Congressmen to see for themselves. Last week, after a trip to Berbera, Oklahoma Republican Senator Dewey Bartlett concluded that Schlesinger's facts were essentially correct. Among those who accompanied Bartlett to Somalia was TIME'S Nairobi bureau chief Lee Griggs. His report...
Michigan's John Swainson has in his 49 years made good over and over again. Captain of the high school football team in Port Huron and an Eagle Scout, Swainson went on to serve with distinction in the 95th Infantry Division during World War II, losing both legs just below the knees in a mine explosion. He won election to the Michigan state senate in 1954 and then served two-year terms in succession as the State's Lieutenant Governor and Governor. After his defeat by George Romney, Swainson served as a circuit court judge before being elevated...
...interests. Economists at President Ford's September summit meetings spotlighted 32 such rigidities. Among them: the Davis-Bacon Act, which compels contractors to pay inflationary wages on federally assisted construction projects; the Jones Act, which forbids shippers to use low-cost foreign vessels to move goods from one U.S. port to another; misnamed fair-trade laws that permit manufacturers to prevent retailers from cutting prices on brand-name products; agricultural "marketing orders" that restrict the supply of oranges, tomatoes and other products; and freight, regulations that force many trucks to return empty from long-distance trips, although they could carry...