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...charge of conspiracy to transport and distribute obscene material across state lines masks the real issue of whether the movie offends the "average" American, Reems said...
...relief efforts during the first 24 hours were badly muddled. A gasoline shortage hindered rescuers until the government released emergency supplies. Drugs were in chronically short supply. Hundreds of bottles of freshly donated blood were left behind in Istanbul because Turkish airline authorities were unable to provide air transport for delivery. The reason: many of their planes were en route to Saudi Arabia, loaded with Moslem pilgrims intent on making the hadj. Only 400 tents and 470 blankets could be provided in the first stages of the rescue mission; survivors huddling against the 10° F. cold were forced...
...measure the government received a stinging setback. At issue was a bill that would allow longshoremen-who belong to the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union, led by Jack Jones, a key supporter of the government's wage-austerity program-the right to handle cargo up to five miles away from British coastal ports. The legislation gives union members a foothold in the unloading of container shipping, which has reduced the need for longshore labor at docksides. The Lords had narrowed the proposed law's application to a half-mile zone around ports. In voting to rescind...
...damages that could be claimed by victims of a nuclear accident; forbid new plants to operate unless the state's legislators were convinced that all major safety systems would operate properly in an emergency; require that the legislators be satisfied that the plants had made provisions to transport nuclear materials securely and dispose of them safely...
Maldistribution in the geographic sense can be cured with the education of more physicians and better organization, transportation, and communication. Maldistribution in the cultural sense will not be solved by just more physicians and the relatively easy solutions of problems of transport and communication... The effectiveness of a physician is determined by what he knows and who he is... We shall not have adequate service for our medically deprived citizens, of whatever cultural background, until we have physicians from all cultural backgrounds...