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...discussed at closed party meetings throughout the Soviet Union. By all accounts, it was a scathing attack on shortcomings, waste, inefficiency and mismanagement in the economy (TIME, Jan. 26). Brezhnev spoke of lost productivity because of rampant alcoholism. As one example of mismanagement, he reportedly told of a shipment of four expensive construction cranes from East Germany. All four were shipped clear across the country to Vladivostok, but two of them actually were supposed to go to Odessa. They finally arrived in damaged condition at their correct destination...
...closed indefinitely by the Six-Day War, forcing oil tankers to make the long and costly journey around the Cape of Good Hope, both countries hastily revived plans to build pipelines. These lines were intended to transmit Middle East oil more quickly and cheaply to the Mediterranean for shipment to Europe and the Western Hemisphere. Last week Egypt's plans were still on the drawing board, but oil was flowing through the Israelis' underground pipeline, which stretches 159 miles from the Port of Eilat on the Gulf of Aqaba to Ashkelon on the Mediterranean...
Ravi I. L. Rikhye '68, a citizen of India, is now imprisoned in Delhi for alleged possession and trafficking of illegal drugs from India to the United States. Four Americans have also been apprehended in connection with the drug shipment...
After tracing the shipment through the carrier. Air India, others apprehended Rikhye, an American friend, and 900 pounds more in Delhi...
...polluting effects of technology. Even the far reaches of Puget Sound are burdened with pulp-mill discharges. Mining companies spew so many wastes over tiny East Helena, Mont. (pop. 1,490) that the lettuce there contains 120 times the maximum concentrations of lead allowed in food for interstate shipment. Tourists are beginning to leave Appalachia nowadays; poisonous acid from strip mines has seeped into the water table...