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...peace." The vacation island was badly battered by the week-long fighting (see following story). Electricity was out in many parts of the island, water was short, and food supplies were depleted. Nicosia's airport, which was not only a mecca for airborne sun worshipers but also a transit point between Israel and the Arab countries, was so damaged that it will take at least two months to make repairs...
...goes the theory. The reality is somewhat different. Basic services such as housing, medical care and mass transit in the Communist countries are generally cheap, but prices for many items from cars to quality foods have long been set so high that they remain beyond the reach of most Russians, as well as Poles, East Germans, Czechs, Rumanians, Hungarians and Bulgarians. Says one Soviet economist ingenuously: "We do not have inflation - we just have high prices...
...early 1962, negotiations between Harvard and what was then the Massachusetts Transit Authority (MTA) over the possible sale of the what was then called the Bennett St. MTA Yards were finally getting serious after at least five years of dickering and half-hearted discussion. The general manager of MTA indicated that he would recommend that its Board of Directors sell the 12-acre site and President Pusey made official Harvard's offer to purchase the land at its market value plus an additional $1 million...
...persistent claims to jurisdiction over 200 miles of coastal seas. If those claims succeeded, some 115 international straits-including Gibraltar, Dover, Malacca, the entrances to the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf-would be controlled by individual countries. That, in turn, would probably end the tradition of unimpeded transit of naval ships...
Washington's final policy, announced earlier this month at Caracas, neatly satisfies all the domestic dilemmas. The U.S. urges that coastal nations be given 1) a twelve-mile territorial sea, and 2) a 200-mile-wide "economic zone" for exploitation of minerals and fish-all contingent upon free transit of ships through all straits. Nations bordering on the sea would control fish species classified as coastal (cod, haddock) and anadromous (salmon and other varieties that breed in fresh water and spend most of their adult lives in the open seas); they would have first rights to harvest these species...