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...Russians, Vladivostok was the most fortuitous acquisition in the Far East; for the Chinese, it was the most galling loss. The port is situated on Golden Horn Bay, which opens onto the Sea of Japan; it was linked to Moscow by the Trans-Siberian Railway...
...last week France was facing its worst labor unrest since the protests of May 1968 that nearly toppled Charles de Gaulle. The postal spat quickly developed into a strike that spread to the entire mail system, paralyzing thousands of dependent businesses. In the past fortnight meanwhile, coal miners, railway men, electric-utility workers, hospital employees, customs officials, Paris bus drivers and even veterinarians have walked off their jobs for at least a day. Last week Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski outraged union leaders by sending in police to oust picketers from postal facilities. As a result, a majority of France...
...Left Bank. Outside Milan, arsonists, probably belonging to a leftist group called the Red Brigades, burned down the warehouses of a company associated with ITT, destroying $10 million worth of telephone equipment. Near Naples a mob of unemployed men, along with their families, blocked a main north-south railway line. Fifty people were arrested before the line was reopened. In Venice, trash collectors blockaded the Grand Canal for two hours with scores of garbage scows...
Until last year, the downtown district and the tax base of Lima, Ohio (pop. 55,000), were disappearing at approximately the same rate. The bus sys tem had broken down, the turreted old railway station was closed, and the streets were full of potholes...
Essentially, Moyer's strategy is to merge public funds with private effort. He uses government-paid welfare people to cut up railroads ties donated by the Norfolk and Western Railway...