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...vans are everywhere: parked near the beach at Cape Cod, on Manhattan's West Side, on Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue, or cruising the roads, pikes and throughways in between. Few of them are new and shiny, and no one bothers much about paint or chrome. The kids actually prefer them to have modest exteriors; a flashy-looking van is always more attractive to thieves. To the owner what is important is what is inside...
...divided the world into trade blocs that brought international commerce almost to a standstill and gave a major impetus to the growth of economic imperialism in Europe and the Far East. For the past 25 years, the U.S. has championed free trade and economic internationalism. Observed the London Daily Telegraph: "The danger of Mr. Nixon's approach to the dollar's longstanding problems is that it is self-evidently protectionist and as such invites retaliation...
Wishing Well. In London, the Daily Telegraph noted that the Nixon approach was "self-evidently protectionist and as such invites retaliation." Warned the Times: "The danger which has to be avoided at all costs is a general retreat into economic blocs divided by trade barriers and monetary restrictions." But Amsterdam's De Telegraaf praised U.S. policy: "Americans attack the cause of the illness. We Dutch should follow their example...
Near the end of every month, 100 top executives from the global empire of Harold S. Geneen, chairman and president of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., gather in his Manhattan headquarters for one of the best-known staff meetings in the business world. In the near future, however, there could be a significant drop-off in attendance. At the behest of the Justice Department, ITT has agreed to divest itself of six important companies...
...block roads, close airports or persuade other units in Algeria's 45,000-man army to join them. Said Hassan in his post-coup press conference: "They took over the Ministry of Interior, but they forgot about police headquarters. They occupied the radio station, but forgot about the telegraph and post office. They used the radio transmitter that covers Rabat, but forgot the one in Tangiers." What is more, both Colonel Mohammed Ababou, director of the Abermoumou military academy and a mastermind of the plot, and General Mohammed Medbouh, the ostensible leader, were killed during the Shootout at Skhirat...