Word: transport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate voted yesterday, 51 to 46, to stop Federal funding of the supersonic transport (SST), despite administration, labor, and industry pressure for continued appropriations...
Last year an intensive drive by citizen groups concerned about ecology and national priorities nearly doomed continued development of the U.S. supersonic transport aircraft. After the Senate voted nay, the plane was temporarily saved by a House-Senate compromise extending funds through March of this year. With that mandate about to expire, the battle has been joined once more. This time the SST's supporters have mounted a highly professional counterattack that threatens to overwhelm the aircraft's critics...
North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao forces stepped up the war in northern Laos, rocketing the ancient royal capital of Luang Prabang and assaulting four other nearby government positions. About 120 Americans, mostly women and children, fled Luang Prabang aboard American transport planesSunday. The city is reported to be almost completely surrounded by Pathet Lao forces...
...House of Representatives voted 218-204 yesterday to halt further federal funding of the Super-Sonic Transport plane (SST) as of March 30. However, SST supporters will call for another vote on the issue within the next week...
...guerrilla movements fighting the Portuguese in Mozambique and Angola. He said that nine of 15 provinces in Angola are now controlled by the liberation forces, but that the recent American decision to sell two Boeing 707s to the Lisbon government (which Enteta claims the Portuguese will use to transport troops and material to their African colonies) indicates an American commitment to supporting the Caetano regime...