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LONDON_Leaders of Britain's National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) called off a day-old national rail strike yesterday after their stoppage brought transport chaos to London, already gripped by a week-old-subway shutdown...
...nuclear aircraft carriers and $56 million to build chemical weapons. The House has not yet passed a version of the bill. The final day of Senate debate provided an occasion for yet another political struggle. The Pentagon had requested $800 million to buy 50 Lockheed C-5 Galaxy transport planes, a purchase heartily supported by Senators Sam Nunn and Mack Mattingly of Georgia, where they are made. But Senators Henry Jackson and Slade Gorton of Washington successfully led an effort to replace the C-5 funds with $520 million for 50 converted Boeing 747 planes, which are manufactured in their...
Perini employees at the scene Tuesday said the crane was lowering a large empty bucket used to transport materials to and from street level when the accident occurred. Kelly-apparently was guiding the operation and had his back turned to the crane...
...surface ships, including spending $7 billion for two 90,000-ton Nimitz-class nuclear aircraft carriers. The sinking of the Sheffield, said Lehman, showed that relying on smaller aircraft carriers, as proposed by Colorado Democrat Gary Hart and other military reformers, would be dangerous. Only large carriers can transport airborne defenses, including F-14 "Tomcat" fighters and surveillance planes, that will adequately protect fleets against modern missiles. The Argentine plane carrying Exocet missiles "would not have gotten anywhere near one of our battle groups," he claimed. Lehman also insisted that the war shattered the reformers' argument that there...
...Bakker's faith in God and man, though reduced to the proportions of cars and boats, is not based on greed. Like the cargo cults, the South Sea islanders who worshipped the army transport planes that bought unimaginable riches of K-rations and surplus hardware, the Bakkers grasp best the material manifestations of the divine. Welfare checks number not among such miracles: "Why can't man throw money at his problems? Because God wants things to be in accord with His will... We're tired of all the hype. We want to go back to old foundations." When God speaks...