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...Gunsmith Gilbert Forbes, proprietor of The Sign of the Sportsman at 18 Broad Way, admitted receiving Tryon's money through Matthews and sending one shipment of 20 guns to the British. He claimed, however, that nearly half the guns had been defective and that the real purpose of the money had been to recruit Continental soldiers to the British cause...
...closed and declared that he would begin "fully implementing" the United Nations-imposed international sanctions against Rhodesia. His government detained 18 Rhodesian trainmen caught inside Mozambique's borders and seized a considerable amount of Rhodesian rolling stock as well as tons of tobacco, copper, chrome and asbestos awaiting shipment at Mozambican ports...
...side of the coin. But in general Ambler has a wide and realistic understanding of how the world works: each book is rich in historical detail, psychological insight, and another added element which might be called technique--How to do things. The "hero" of Passage of Arms is a shipment of guns originating with communist Chinese guerillas and followed through several countries en route to anti-communist terrorists in Indonesia. You learn how to run guns. I also learned (from The Levanter) how to build a bomb...
...SPENT MILLIONS of dollars for the rights to broadcast the Olympics, and millions more for equipment like a studio assembled in New York, broken down for shipment, and put back together in Innsbruck. Then they assigned American sportscasters who act as if they knew nothing about winter sports to cover the events with only the help of some former participants, whom they title "experts." Frank Gifford, ex-New-York-Giants pro football player and connoisseur of Super Bowls, commented on the Olympic downhill race: "Look at all those people flocking to the slopes. You know, this event is the Super...
...factors have postponed doomsday at least one more year. They are 1) unseasonably mild weather over most of the nation during November and early December, and 2) a Federal Power Commission rule change last fall that permits interstate pipelines this winter to buy gas for shipment to industrial customers at the prices charged within the producing states rather than the unrealistically low ones formerly mandated on interstate shipments. The price of the unregulated intrastate gas ranges from...