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...although one MASDC task is reclaiming usable parts from those planes that will never fly again. The Pentagon transmits a weekly computerized "save list," and in a special hangar MASDC maintenance mechanics go to work removing anything from a ball bearing to a tail section. Reclaimed jet engines awaiting shipment hang in rows like sides of beef...
Other instances of congressional support of Israel were also impressive: 71 Senators wrote to Secretary of State William Rogers on May 26, 1970, to urge shipment of jets to Israel. The Senate in 1971 supported, without even public hearings, an extra $500 million to finance weapons sales to Israel (the vote: 82-14, even though the bill as finally approved deleted this provision). In 1973, 70 Senators and 264 Representatives co-sponsored resolutions calling for the U.S. to send additional jets to Israel during the Yom Kippur...
...surpluses created are somehow transferred to the hungry. A cutback in U.S. eating habits, even if sustained, will not automatically put grain on the table in Ethiopia or India. Thus churchmen recommend that Christians also get involved in political action to force increases in Government purchase and shipment of food to hungry countries...
This ill-assorted crew succeeds, barely, with the aid of many kind coincidences of plot and blasts of whimsy all lifted from a Donald E. Westlake novel and curdled in shipment. The actors perform with resolute lack of charm. Scott appears to be doing some sort of New Year's party imitation of Humphrey Bogart, an idea that consists entirely of petrifying his upper lip and pressing the dialogue out between the spaces in his teeth. The other members of the cast seem to have dropped by on their way to the unemployment office...
...Turkish opium into heroin for distribution in the U.S. and other countries. Police seizures of as much as 50 kilograms (110 lbs.) of heroin were common. New York detectives two weeks ago captured 165 lbs. of Turkish-derived heroin (street value: $113 million) that was stashed in a shipment of Louis XIII furniture being sent to the U.S.; the heroin had apparently been processed before the French connection was broken and had been stockpiled for later sale. So far, narcotics seizures in and around Amsterdam have been much smaller; officials reckon that the Dutch drug traffic is less than...