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Along with the seating change, Gladstone has "German Rigged" the boat for today's race. In such an arrangement both the four and five positions are manned by starboard oarsmen. This moves a port man into the bow slot. The results have been decisive, if this week's practices are any indication. The lightweight's practice workouts since Monday have been the best of the season...
...only continued but increased its military aid to Greece, even as the American people were being told that there was an embargo on arms shipments to Greece. The island of Crete is being turned into a NATO nuclear base. Presently the U.S. is trying to secure permanent home port facilities in Piraeus and other major Greek ports. And with troubles in Turkey, Greece is becoming the whorehouse of the Sixth Fleet...
...conspired to fix prices at an improperly high level. Alioto was to be paid 15% of whatever he could recover, up to a maximum fee of $1,000,000. He eventually got the manufacturers to pay $16.2 million to his clients-the state of Washington, three cities, one port authority and eight public utility districts. Along the way, however, O'Connell consented to lift the $1,000,000 ceiling on Alioto's fee; Alioto got $2.3 million...
...Himself. Many democratic-minded Greeks resent the open U.S. support of the Papadopoulos dictatorship. Last month Washington gave further evidence of its acceptance of his regime by negotiating for home-port rights in the bays near Athens for the Mediterranean-based Sixth Fleet. In addition, the Nixon Administration is trying to persuade Congress to up military aid to Greece from about $90 million to $118 million...
...analysis of the various routes for taking oil from the North Slope appears to pave the way for Administration approval of the 789-mile pipeline that the Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., a consortium of seven oil companies, wants to build from Prudhoe Bay to the ice-free port of Valdez in southern Alaska. Conservationists say that a pipeline across Canada to the Midwestern U.S. would cause less ecological damage from oil spills, and they plan to fight for their view in the courts. The oil companies contend that the trans-Canada route would cost more to build and take longer...