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...House of Commons. Pounding a dispatch box with his heavy hands, Bevin said: "The reply of the Soviet Government is awaited . . . [but] I shall not be a party to holding up the economic recovery of Europe by the finesse of procedure." The immediate problems of Europe were "food, coal, transport, houses, opportunities for a decent life...
...reopen their taps tomorrow, the world would never again be the same. The sudden shortage of fuel has finally jolted governments into a realization that the era of cheap and ample energy is dead and that people will have to learn to live permanently with less heating, lighting and transport and pay more for each of them...
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...Thais themselves inadvertently pulled the plug. Their 200-year-old capital began as a trading village in swampy lowlands on the banks of the Chao Phraya River. Natural and man-made klongs (canals) provided transport and natural drainage. After World War II, economic growth lured hundreds of thousands of workers to the city, and newly prosperous Bangkok took to the automobile with a vengeance. In the scramble for road space, most klongs were filled...
When Weinberger arrived in Honduras, U.S. Navy Seabees were already crashing through the jungle countryside with bulldozers. The task of the Navy workmen: to convert three of Honduras' ungainly airstrips into modern concrete runways capable of handling U.S. C-130 military transport planes. The Seabees and the Army Corps of Engineers are the mechanized advance guard of ambitious U.S. plans for the poor and underdeveloped country. They were laying the groundwork for a much heralded series of U.S. military maneuvers in Honduras, scheduled to last until at least next March. Among the aims of the exercises, known...