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Saigon, meanwhile, continued its frantic preparations to deal with the uncertain dynamics of peace. By week's end the massive, eleventh-hour infusion of new U.S. military hardware-59 tanks, 100 personnel carriers, 32 heavy-transport planes, 210 fighter-bombers and 280 helicopters-was virtually complete. On the political front, the Thieu regime has added tens of thousands of known or suspected Communists and Communist sympathizers to South Viet Nam's prison population in the past few weeks. Thieu has also mounted a belated effort to broaden his narrow (largely military) base of support with a renewed drive...
...former Viet Nam correspondent, Willwerth has had his share of hours on airliners, helicopters and transport planes. Flying with Bach, he found, is something different...
...want the full integration of Ulster into the United Kingdom in the manner of Scotland and Wales. A regional assembly could be modeled along the lines of the Greater London Council, with various assembly committees-some headed by Catholics-administering the province's financial, social welfare, housing, transport and general police affairs. Internal security would remain under William Whitelaw, Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, for an indefinite period. Foreign affairs and defense would continue to be handled, as in the days of Stormont, by Westminster...
...sudden wave of strikes started two weeks ago in the sparsely settled southern province of Aisén. The government had announced plans to set up a mixed government-private highway transport operation there. Angry truck owners-who in Chile are mostly one-or two-vehicle operators-promptly walked off the job, and others, fearful that Aisén was only the first step in a full-scale government takeover, joined the protest. By last week 5,000 truck owners were on strike, severely curtailing shipments of supplies to the capital. Retail store owners quickly shuttered their shops in sympathy...
...opposition Christian Democrat leaders to meet with him to discuss ways of ending the strike, only to be rebuffed again. Last week Santiago bus owners threatened to strike and Allende hastened to meet their demands with only minor reservations. He agreed to draft a law guaranteeing that bus transport will remain in the private sector, return three nationalized bus companies to their owners, and drop lawsuits against transport leaders brought during the strikes...