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...report states that the safety precautions at the plants--in Plymouth and Rowe--are "adequate" but recommends further measures for guarding radioactive shipment and evacuating employees in case of emergency...
...them back to work. Ford also gave assurance that negotiations over shipping rates paid by the Russians would go on, to ensure that at least one-third of the grain would be carried in U.S. vessels-a key concern of the longshoremen. The President's actions also allow shipment of the grain that the Soviets have already contracted for, appeasing farmers and grain dealers who anticipate large profits from the exports...
Purely Pragmatic. Last year the U.S. reluctantly agreed to permit the shipment to Cuba of some $80 million worth of automobiles manufactured by General Motors, Ford and Chrysler in their Argentine subsidiaries. That decision, however, was purely pragmatic. The Buenos Aires government had warned that if such permission were denied, Argentina would expropriate the U.S.-owned production lines. Last week's action-taken only three days before the foreign ministers of the world's nonaligned nations were due to begin a conference in Lima-merely extended the previous ruling to cover all U.S. firms with foreign subsidiaries...
Already, emotions are rising as economically interested groups argue the pros and cons of the new Soviet grain deals. Last week an ad hoc committee of the AFL-CIO maritime unions, which are threatening to boycott the Soviet shipment, met with Butz to protest the sales. "This sounds like the 1972 rip-off all over again, and we won't stand for it," said the Longshoremen's Thomas Gleason, referring to the Soviet purchase of 19 million tons of U.S. grain three summers ago. "Nobody is going to be ripped off," Butz assured the seamen. Said Don Woodward...
Much of the inefficiency in the food distributing machinery is beyond the industry's control. Teamsters union regulations mean that many trucks deliver small shipments to stores each week, when a few fully loaded trucks could do the job. The typical supermarket receives 200 trucks every week; each shipment has a wholesale value of about $50, and costs the store $5 to process in paper work alone. Rules imposed by the Interstate Commerce Commission often require vans to return from their destinations empty, rather than let them pick up an available load. The National Commission on Productivity estimates that...