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...extinguished the fedayeen presence in the Jerash woods of northern Jordan, so upset Damascus that Syria closed her border with Jordan. The decision disrupted the usual heavy road traffic between Amman and Beirut and forced Jordan to route its phosphate exports and all imports through its only port at Aqaba...
...summer afternoons, Greek shipowners gather at coffeehouses near the port of Piraeus, where they read their fortunes in the grounds at the bottom of their cups. In recent years, the grounds have spelled out nothing but good news. Since the Six-Day War of June 1967 closed the Suez Canal, shipowners everywhere have been riding the crest of a seemingly endless wave of profits. Last winter freight rates rose so high that many owners of bulk carriers and tankers became millionaires almost overnight...
...workers grow restless in the 24-hour daylight. Another idle crew waits 60 miles south, near Galbraith Lake, where $4,500,000 worth of unused Cat tractors, bulldozers, graders and pickup trucks stand in precise rows, as in a toyshop at Christmas. Hundreds of miles farther south, at the port of Valdez, workers are beginning to coat stacks of rusting pipeline-400 miles of it-to prevent corrosion. Three years after one of history's richest oil discoveries, production is as bogged down as a truck convoy in tundra. The cause of the delay is the Department of Interior...
...climate and geography. To protect the swampy tundra terrain, the companies use offshore drilling techniques. They have developed new strains of grass to grow on disturbed tundra, and they plan to install monitoring devices that would automatically turn off oil flow minutes after a leak is detected. The port of Valdez will have probably the most advanced antipollution system in the world. Problems remain, but University of Alaska Ecologist Vic Fischer says: "The basic environmental questions have been faced, and engineering can solve them...
...arrivals to cheap beds. Free rock concerts, orchestra recitals and open-air theater performances are held in the city. A municipally published multilanguage newspaper for visiting youths, Use It, contains the latest on what to do-and not to do-in Copenhagen. From a recent issue: "Bathing in the port and its canals, as well as in the ancient moats and in public lakes, is forbidden, and anyhow the water is not very tempting...