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...F.N.L.A. Until UNITA's military alliance with the F.N.L.A. three months ago, it had the weakest international connections, and its 10,000 troops were poorly armed. Since the alliance, however, Zaïre has been flying in guns and armored vehicles in its U.S.-built C-130 transport planes...
...nation during the Coal Strike of 1974, Wilson took office on the principle that only a Labour government could come to a rational deal with the Trade Unions. He is now trying to work out such a contract with the support of Jack Hones, the president of the Transport and General Workers Union, Britain's largest, and Michael Foot, who won over crucial support for Wilson's new policies in an emotional speech at the recent conference in Black-pool...
...have agreed to rebuild Phonesavang on the Plain of Jars. Phonesavang, once considered a strategic village, was destroyed by U.S. Air Force bombing raids. Just as U.S. pilots and planes used to ferry non-Communist troops and officials to trouble spots around the country. Soviet pilots and planes now transport the Pathet Lao. The Russians currently have about 500 to 800 diplomats and technical experts in Laos, and reinforcements are arriving every month...
...make matters even worse for the Russians, a cost-conscious Moscow apparatchik decided that, though the Soviets would donate the statue-a duplicate already stands in a Vientiane park -the Laotians would have to transport it through the countryside to Luang Prabang. Miffed by such commissar chintziness, the Laotians have not bothered to move Luang Prabang's bronze statue out of storage in Vientiane...
Said Trans World Airlines Chairman Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., in a burst of metaphor mixing: "The current regulatory system has served this country well, and before we play Russian roulette with it, we should make doubly sure that the cure proposed is not worse than the disease." The Air Transport Association, meeting in Washington, called the President's proposals "misconceived...