Word: transport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...darling of the Labor Party left and the pariah of its right. Business leaders, panicked by Benn's grandiose plans for public control of industries and investment, had been demanding his dismissal from the Cabinet. On the other hand, powerful union leaders including Jack Jones, president of the Transport and General Workers Union, had warned that any demotion of Benn would be taken as "a grave affront." The situation called for the kind of political juggling act at which Wilson excels, and he came through with a dazzling performance...
...memos about things like that.") Arguing for Dorado's release Gulf contended that he had "no involvement whatsoever" in the payoffs. Last week, however, a Bolivian judge ruled that there were "indications "of guilt" against him. Dorado asserted that he was only a low-level employee responsible for transport, administration and public relations. The government's real target was Dorsey, who said: "They have no power to extradite me and I have no intention of going to Bolivia." The Bolivian press report quoted a judge as saying that the Bolivians would...
...nightfall on the Gulf of Siam, U.S. forces were massing for the assault. The amphibious brigade from the 3rd Marine Division had been flown aboard an Air Force C-141 transport from Okinawa to Utapao, over the protests of the Thai government, which had been trying to head off trouble with the neighboring Cambodians by refusing the U.S. permission to launch attacks from Thailand. Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj of Thailand ordered the Marines to leave by Thursday morning or face unspecified "serious and damaging" circumstances. Meanwhile, the Holt and the Wilson had closed in on Koh Tang; the Coral...
...their immediate families. That could account for fully half of the refugees. By week's end, 16,800 had been settled in the U.S. and the flow of refugees out of the camps had begun to increase. Meantime, Congress, moving with unaccustomed speed, approved some $405 million to transport, feed and house the refugees and generally help them to resettle...
...states and cities that are now being forced to lay off workers, cut services and raise taxes. In an unusual proposal for a staunch liberal, Nathan suggests special tax incentives to selected industries so that they could speed up investment in such things as oil-pipe plants and coal transport and build storage facilities to hold a year's stockpile of oil as insurance against another Arab embargo...