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Rhodesia's interests are even more vital. Rhodesia is entirely landlocked--and virtually all of its exports and imports go through the Mozambican port of Beira. With Mozambique in black hands, and more than likely to exclude white-supremacist governments from the use of its resources, Rhodesia would have to ship all of its exports and imports overland through South Africa before getting to a port--the trip would be five times as long...
...Congress was to cut off the 1973 grant of $15 million in military aid, the Greek government on its own eliminated it. Junta leaders, who have given up their American limousines in favor of Mercedes-Benzes, have blocked the U.S. Navy's plans to home-port a Sixth Fleet aircraft carrier in Greece. The Navy had already shifted other ships there, but the Greeks protested further moves. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, in a masterpiece of bureaucratese, recently said that home-port negotiations would resume when there was "greater harmony in our mutual perceptions...
Maguire is the consulting firm which supported the Inner Belt, a proposed traffic artery (later scrapped) hated by Cambridge residents, and the firm which allegedly bowed to political pressure in altering its findings about a new container port in Boston Harbor. Anti-library forces have objected so strenuously to the library and to Maguire that the firm's decision will be doubted no matter what the outcome...
Shortly after Maguire's appointment on February 13, Cambridge civic leaders asked the GSA to investigate several allegations against the firm, including the charge that Maguire had unethically altered a report under pressure from another client, the Massachusetts Port Authority...
...boat was rowing in circles. The starboard was outrowing the port side and making the boat go unevenly through the water, and the switches should correct that," Higginson said...