Word: rail
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...factory--and lease it back to the company at low rates. Pennsylvania matched that bid for its New Stanton site--a factory shell built by Chrysler in the early '70s but never occupied--and threw in a 95 per cent cut in local taxes raised by offering to build rail and highway links to its site. Pennsylvania matched that, and as a clincher, persuaded two state pension funds to put up a $135 million loan to help VW set up shop in New Stanton...
...unexpected boost for his cause from an old enemy. Faced with a grave fertilizer shortage that threatened famine and food shortages, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda reluctantly announced that he would reopen his country's border with Rhodesia to permit vital imports and to allow the rail shipment of Zambian copper to ports in South Africa and Mozambique...
Snags immediately developed. B.R.A.C. Chief Fred Kroll refused to heed Carter's order until he got a court-backed guarantee that no reprisals would be taken against union members by the railroads. Then a U.S. district court in Washington postponed a decision on a rail industry call for a no-strike injunction against the union; the court questioned whether the Railway Act empowers the White House to halt a strike already in progress...
Following the provisions of the Railway Act, which was designed to prevent sudden, paralyzing rail shutdowns, the President appointed a fact-finding panel of three arbitrators to recommend terms of a settlement within 30 days. After that the Government will seek to prod both sides into an accord. If at the end of 60 days no agreement is reached, the union would be free to resume its strike. Under such circumstances, past Presidents have sought emergency legislation to avert another walkout. In 1971, for example, Congress imposed a settlement after a strike by railroad signalmen...
Thus did a single 4,600-member local bring two-thirds of the nation's rail operations to a halt. And the disturbing fact remains that, unless the Administration can smooth over the bitter differences between B.R.A.C. and N&W, a replay of last week's turmoil on the rails remains a possibility...