Word: transport
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Possibly a couple of the pedestrians watching Lady Elizabeth's guests disembarking from their Rollses and Daimlers will have wandered into Mayfair courtesy of the special gold, blue and white all-day ticket that London Transport is providing for the wedding day. At a cost of $4, it represents the cheapest tour around. The most expensive seems to be the trip organized by Mrs. Ian Routledge, who, for a fee of $5,000 (exclusive of air fare), will ferry 70 presumptive American socialites from London's St. James' club to stately country homes, where they can hobnob...
...members of the surviving dynasties-the Dutch and the Belgians, the Swedes and the Danes-they managed to find a modus vivendi largely by effacing themselves: riding bicycles, using public transport, marrying commoners and generally behaving like senior civil servants rather than anointed kings and queens...
...Reagan Administration is trying to get around the transport shortage by negotiating rights to preposition supplies in Somalia, Kenya and Oman so that the R.D.F. could pick them up on its way into the Persian Gulf region. The Administration also hopes to talk a friendly nation, perhaps Egypt or Oman, into supplying a permanent base for R.D.F. units. That will be far from easy and may be politically hazardous. Providing the R.D.F. with a base might brand a friendly government as a U.S. puppet in the eyes of its neighbors?and its own people. President Anwar Sadat, the closest...
This inability to move troops has been developing for a decade, mostly because the Air Force and Navy have given transport a low priority; neither service can summon much enthusiasm for providing a taxi service for the Army and Marines. The number of planes available to fly troops and equipment dropped by 258, nearly a quarter of the force, during the 1970s. The Military Air Transport Command had all it could do last fall to fly a mere 1,400 soldiers to Egypt for a training exercise, Operation Bright Star. The number of cargo ships fell by 297, nearly half...
...Katyusha rockets at northern Israel. The Palestinian action was noteworthy less for its scope than for the fact that it occurred so soon after the Israelis had knocked out so many bridges in the region. Israeli authorities concluded that the Palestinians were using mules, which can ford streams, to transport the sophisticated rockets to launching areas in southern Lebanon...