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...unlucky colonel apparently was a man in the wrong place at the wrong time. A 23-year veteran of military service, he had a one-day transit stopover in Beirut while en route from a conference in Pakistan to Ankara, where he serves on the U.S.-Turkish joint military mission. Wearing civilian clothes, he was in a Beirut taxi when armed terrorists halted the car and seized him. Lebanese authorities searched for Morgan and his captors throughout the strife-torn country in vain...
Most experts agree that the U.S.'s transportation network is gravely out of balance-too much emphasis on highways and too little on railroads and mass transit. The main reason can be summed up in four words: the Highway Trust Fund. Created by Congress in 1956 to build the 42,500-mile-long interstate highway system, now 85% complete, the fund has proved to be a financially irresistible force. It automatically receives some $4 billion every year from a federal gasoline tax of 40 per gal., plus another $2 billion from levies on diesel fuel, lubricating oil and other...
Byrne has started laying off some 4,500 state workers, cutting state aid to public transit and local education and otherwise trimming back. The senate has begun passing a series of nuisance taxes on cigarettes and other items, but is adamantly against the income tax. Says State Senator Alexander Menza of his colleagues: "They think they have a choice between doing what's right and keeping their special license plates. They would rather keep the plates...
...Newspapers rejected their advertising, the Chicago Transit Authority refused to display their posters, and a clutch of American Nazi Party members showed up to picket. Nonetheless, some 750 delegates of the American Communist Party managed to get together at Chicago's swank Ambassador Hotel for their first convention in three years. "Some people have said that we should love this country or leave it," intoned California Delegate Angela Davis, "[but] we are going to fight like hell to get this country back." Fighter Davis was bothered, though, by the fact that the party had chosen such an unproletarian meeting...
...relationship with Rhodesia -which relies on Mozambican rail lines and ports to handle 80% of its exports -is another matter. Though he said nothing about a blockade last week, Machel seems certain to shut off Rhodesia's vital transit trade sooner or later. That would cost Mozambique about $50 million a year in transport revenues, but might also topple the hated white regime in Salisbury. "The struggle in Zimbabwe," he said last week, using the African name for Rhodesia, "is our struggle...