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When Philadelphia's transport workers walked off their jobs five weeks ago, they felt public pressure would quickly force the city to grant a contract boosting basic wages to $7.43 per hour by 1979. The workers are still walking, and so is a lot of Philadelphia, as the 400,000 people who used to ride the buses and trolleys every day have found other ways to get around...
Mayor Frank Rizzo's response to the Transport Workers Union: "Not one more dime...
Slow and dirty, but steady. The fading structures of a decaying city are the great mineral mines and hardware shops of the nation. Break them down and re-use the parts. Coal is too difficult to dig up and transport to give us energy in the amounts we need, nuclear fission is judged to be too dangerous, the technical breakthrough toward nuclear fusion that we hoped for never took place, and solar batteries are too expensive to maintain on the earth's surface in sufficient quantity...
...last week sent $13 million in "nonlethal" equipment (including a C-130 transport, radio equipment and aircraft parts) but turned down Mobutu's request for arms and ammunition. During last year's presidential campaign, Jimmy Carter had opposed the Ford Administration's arms sales to Zaire, saying they were "fueling the East-West arms race in Africa." While watching the developments in Zaire closely, the new Administration remains hopeful that Nigeria's mediating efforts may still succeed. Behind the scenes, Washington may have played a part in soliciting aid for Mobutu from Morocco, France and Egypt...
...branch of the National Council of Protestant Churches will pay between $500 and $600 to transport the tractor to Sao Tiago in May, he added...