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...made enemies by joining Ben-Gurion in a group opposing the government of then Premier Levi Eshkol. Not until 1968 was Peres' faction reintegrated into the Labor Party. Subsequently Peres began broadening his expertise. He held such diverse jobs as Minister for Economic Development of Occupied Territories, Immigration, Transport and Communications and Information. When he lost a close race to Rabin for the premiership in 1974, Peres accepted the post of Defense Minister in his rival's Cabinet...
Concorde means harmony in French. But last week the needle-nosed, Anglo-French supersonic transport was the center of a bitter diplomatic quarrel that could poison transatlantic relations for years. What set off the dispute was the prospect that the Port of New York Authority would finally refuse landing rights for Concorde at New York's Kennedy International Airport. Instead, the Port Authority's eleven commissioners deferred decision for the third time in a year. The postponement followed intense, eleventh-hour lobbying by the governments of France and Britain and threats from unions in those countries of retaliation...
...does allow a painting to travel for any significant distance, they might replace its glass shield with plexiglass, using a special filtering plexiglass to protect water-colors from fading in strong sunlight. The technicians would coat sculpture with a plastic varnish to protect it from scratches in transport...
Only the Kabalega Falls National Park on the banks of the White Nile shows signs of life. Hippos snort still in the muddy waters-though many have been shot out for greasy "hippoburgers" -and crocodiles abound, well fed by the bodies that get regularly dumped into the river. Ground transport is almost totally lacking. Less than 5% of Uganda's total bus fleet is operable; breakdowns are permanent because no spare parts are available...
Brock suddenly becomes the indispensable man in the middle. Satan needs the Limbo Line to transport cannon across the bottomless mud of the gluttons' Third Circle. The archangel Michael, ready to wage another Miltonic war against Satan, needs the railroad to carry his chariot of fire across the same...