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...stockpiled in Kampala awaiting buyers. "They can still grow export crops," says a U.N. agronomist, "but uncertain delivery dates and past failure to live up to contracts have turned buyers off. They can't count on supplies any more, so they have counted Uganda out." The trouble is transport to market. Only 1 in 20 trucks registered in Uganda moves...
Blair proposes a tough remedy. At present, the big companies control each stage of the petroleum process: pumping, transport, refining, marketing. Blair would break them up into companies specializing in only one phase of the petroleum process. Ideally, each company would then haggle over price each time the oil changed hands and would thus unleash free-market forces that would push prices down...
Traveling by helicopter, STOL transport and on foot through dense and hidden areas, Hernández Toledo's army so far has arrested 770 people and uprooted or destroyed 1,214 fields of amapola poppies and 419 stands of marijuana on "farms" that sometimes cover 30 acres. But there are at least another 11,000 places to be attacked before the job is completed. The general will do well to obliterate 85% of the dope fields in this annual exercise, since many are carefully camouflaged in the mountains to protect them from the scourgelike troops and from effective baths...
...four years, the fates of two companies, their workers and their communities hung on a single Army contract for a helicopter known as UTTAS (Utility Tactical Transport Aircraft System). In December the Army announced the winner: Sikorsky of Stratford, Conn., which stands to reap perhaps $4 billion in sales over the next ten years. The loser, Boeing Vertol in Ridley Township, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia, must now contend with doubts about its survival as a primary aircraft maker. To gauge the impact of the biggest helicopter award in 20 years, TIME Correspondent Eileen Shields visited both plants. Her report...
...other hand, the Transportation Secretary will have to make decisions about future Supersonic transport landings at American airports and Boeing, a major aircraft manufacturer is located in Adams' home state...Well, draw your own conclusions...