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...Which prohibits interstate shipment of oil pumped in excess of state production quotas...
...disease first showed up in the port city of Rostock fortnight ago, was traced to a shipment of butter imported from Red China. Muttered one stricken East Berliner: "It's a typical disease of the Wall. Before the Wall went up, we could at least buy green vegetables in West Berlin, but all winter long we got practically no vegetables, and when this dysentery bug appeared, we had no resistance...
...Indian intelligence officer named Sitaram Singh. Even when driven off. Katmandu insisted, the "bandits continued to fire from Indian territory." A government-controlled newspaper in Katmandu charged that India was trying "to do a Cuba" in Nepal. Noting that India had failed to deliver a promised arms shipment. Nepal's Foreign Minister Giri said: "We are not happy in our arms agreement with India. The day might come when we will approach another government." Red China, obviously, will be happy to be "approached...
...maybe these things will straighten out. The junta is full of foresight. Why, they planned elevators so large that even a hospital bed could fit into them--no trouble at all. Around that time, somebody figured that Harvard students were getting bigger all the time, and ordered a new shipment of extra-large beds which...
...seldom seen in India because of the government's stringent import restrictions. Shopkeepers did a brisk business in transistor radios, cameras, electric appliances, cosmetics, perfumes, wines. In one Pangim shop alone, Indian soldiers bought 1,400 Max Factor lipsticks. Truckloads of refrigerators were purchased by army officers for shipment home. But the days of the modest boom are numbered. High on the agenda of the Indian government is the introduction into Goa of the same import bans that apply to the rest of India...