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...again, there is a constant and natural pressure for improved provision in health, social security, education, transport, urban renewal-in all areas of national policy. How do we prevent demands, expectations, entitlements running ahead of a nation's wealth, for it is evident that when expectations are ahead of resources serious problems arise...
...Steps. Impatient with the U.N.'s delay, the nine Common Market countries last week pledged to prosecute terrorists or extradite them for trial. Bonn is seeking an international convention to combat terrorist acts that involve the taking of hostages. Israel has begun taking steps too. Israeli Minister of Transport Gad Yaacobi told the Knesset that he is going to propose a law to bar from Israel's airports all airlines lacking sufficient anti-terrorist security measures. Jerusalem also plans to propose the creation of an international agency to exchange information on skyjacking and to agree on guidelines...
...most lucrative place for rent-a-car companies to be is in airports. Needing ground transport, plane passengers account for about 70% of the $700 million in annual auto rentals. Last year however, the Federal Trade Commission charged that 96% of all airport car-rental income went to the three largest companies-Hertz, Avis and National -so the FTC sued the Big Three, accusing them of conspiring to freeze competitors out of airports. The Commission claimed that their rates were 10% to 40% higher than smaller firms...
...even more serious plot. Arrested on June 22 and accused of "dangerous designs and treasonable conspiracies against the rights and liberties of the United States of America," Matthews admitted that he had received more than ?100 from Tory Governor William Tryon, at Tryon's headquarters aboard the transport Duchess of Gordon, mostly for the purchase of guns to arm Tory sympathizers...
...this Bicentennial season, the museums and galleries of Washington offer a feast of exhibition−not mere displays in glass cases or pictures on walls but presentations that stir the imagination, transport us in time, evoke faded memories, envelop us in motion, sounds, even smells...