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...been avoided. Had several nations of the Western alliance not reversed their pinchpenny defense policies and bought desperately needed new weapons systems in the early 1980s, the brutal tank and air attacks of the Soviets could not possibly have been stalled. Had the Poles not sabotaged their own military transport...
...they can be used in heavy seas, where they can be strung together and dropped over oil concentrations. Unlike straw, another natural absorbent, the pillows are easy to retrieve with a long-handled pole or a net rigged between two trawlers. They are very light, easy to stack and transport to spill sites. After use, they can be buried or burned without causing toxic smoke...
Along the coastal highway north of the Israeli border, road signs in Hebrew point the way to Beirut, Nabatiyah, Sidon and other cities. Israeli military policemen with red armbands and white helmets direct traffic at key intersections, and the road has been newly blacktopped to speed the transport of Israeli men and materiel. As the highway approaches Beirut, it passes several large encampments of Israeli soldiers...
...main focus of Operation Exodus and other campaigns. Insiders say that what the press had dubbed the Japan-scam sting operation was really a trap laid for Communist agents. In that case, the FBI arrested employees of Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and charged them with conspiring to transport stolen IBM computer secrets from California's Silicon Valley, near San Francisco, to Japan...
...with crushed coal to form a mudlike slurry that would in turn be fed to other parts of the country. uch schemes are not pipe dreams: South Dakota earlier this year agreed to sell 50,000 acre-ft. of Missouri River water to a San Francisco-based consortium, Energy Transport Systems Inc., which plans to pump the water 260 miles to the coalfields of the Powder River Basin near Gillette, Wyo. Coal slurry would then be moved through conduits to power plants in the South...