Word: transport
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...planning Middle East visits this spring. Kissinger is also urging the Israelis to consider new talks aimed at securing a pledge of nonbelligerency from Sadat. For Egypt, he has announced the proposed sale of U.S. arms to replace Soviet equipment no longer available. So far, only six C-130 transport planes worth $39 million are included, but Kissinger hopes to provide more than that for Egypt. As Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said last week, "I wouldn't be surprised to find a rifle or two on the list." But such arms deliveries may have trouble getting by a tough...
Class Enemies. The revolt was doomed, however, when the unions refused to join. Jack Jones, powerful boss of the huge (1.8 million members) Transport and General Workers Union, denounced those "enemies of the working class" whose disloyalty might topple Wilson and usher in the Tories. The Coventry election, moreover, underlined the distance between the Laborite left and the grass-roots workers it professes to represent. The voters have not clamored, as leftist leaders have, for heavy expenditures to end unemployment. Even with 1.25 million jobless, politicians have found that their constituents complain more about inflation than about unemployment. This could...
...visit. It seems that the royal yacht Britannia, which will carry Her Majesty to Montreal, has old-style lavatories that empty directly into the waves. Royal flush or no, that is a violation of the St. Lawrence Seaway's antipollution laws, ruled Canada's Ministry of Transport. Denying the Royal Navy's pleas for an exception, the Canadians then flew a modern pushbutton, chemical commode to London for inspection by Buckingham Palace. Not up to royal standards, huffed the Queen's advisers, who have decided to modify holding tanks-at taxpayers' expense -aboard the royal...
...supersonic transport plane (SST) will be proven unprofitable within a year, William T. Coleman, Secretary of Transportation, said last night...
Crucial Exports. To dilute support for Savimbi, the Luanda government last week made friendly overtures to its opponents' key backers. In private messages sent to Zambia and ZaïreĤ, Neto said that in exchange for recognition, he would allow his two neighbors to resume transport of their crucial copper exports over the Benguela Railway...