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...flight to land in Nicosia after Monday's coup. Quick to follow was Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager, who, like Marmon, reported for TIME on both the Viet Nam War and last year's Middle East October war. Prager made it to Cyprus aboard a 1,000-ton German trawler bearing two dozen newsmen whose transistor radios interfered dangerously with the ship's compass. "The old Viet Nam bush jackets are here in full flower," quipped Marmon as Prager and other journalists arrived...
...broiling the unsupervised inmates. Zoo officials started a rumor that they might have to slaughter small animals in order to feed larger ones. That persuaded union members to allow food to be brought in; but no manure was taken out, and it piled up at the rate of a ton a day. Along with the rank smells assaulting their noses, Baltimoreans faced a cacophony of wailing sirens, as fire engines raced after hundreds of trash fires and nonstriking patrolmen and state troopers chased down looters. In the first two days of the strike at least 200 stores were vandalized...
...attempt to redress a neocolonialist relationship. Between 1949 and the mid-1960s, five American corporations and one Canadian firm bought 225,000 acres of bauxite-rich land, or 13% of the island's total land area, mostly from private owners. Ore exports from the mines reached 7.4 million tons in 1973, and taxes and royalties on the shipments that year brought in $25 million, roughly 40% of Jamaica's foreign currency. But under the complicated tax system, the Jamaican take on each ton shipped dropped from $2.83 in 1971 to $1.61 in 1973. Moreover, the companies could determine...
...social worker, are leasing trees for between $25 and $150 a year, according to size. Renters of the smaller trees are guaranteed a yield of two boxes of prized Gravenstein apples, while those who reserve the big, older trees will be able to pick as much as a ton of apples...
Moneymen are also cheered by a recent sharp plunge in some commodity prices. Wheat, for example, dropped from $6.11 per bushel in February to $3.62 last week, beef cattle from $46.25 per hundredweight to $38.90, and steel scrap from $115 per ton to $100. If these drops continue, economists believe, corporations will stop scrambling to borrow in order to stockpile raw materials. Indeed, they may sell off some of their present inventories and start repaying their loans...