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...with all the American tourists flooding the country? In one week last month, nine relatives from the U.S., four close friends and two friends of distant cousins were in Israel. With jumbo jets disgorging hundreds at a time, and more than 100 flights per day going in and out, Transport Minister Shimon Peres complains, "We prepared for 3,000 tourists a day. We did not expect 10,000." Tourism in the occupied territories, from
...whom man, in his need, may challenge, asking why he has forsaken him . . . And so man to whom the divine countenance is lifted bursts out into the exultant profession: The Lord is God': this God of Love, he alone is God! . . . Everything earthly lies so far behind the transport of eternity in this confession that it is difficult to imagine that a way can lead back from here into the circuit of the year...
...largest outfit is the tactical airlift wing at Ching Chuan Kang, made up of about 4,500 men and four airlift squadrons with a total authorized capacity of 64 Hercules C-130 aircraft, used to transport troops, medical evacuees and heavy equipment. There are also about 1,300 men headquartered at Shu Lin Kou Air Station and a detachment of two F-4 Phantoms at Tainan. Nuclear weapons locations are, of course, among the most highly classified secrets, but it is almost certain that there are none on Taiwan...
...factor is that the recession severely reduced business travel and caused many family travelers to dally in making vacation plans. Finally, the slow winding down of the Viet Nam War rapidly chopped into the business of the nonscheduled airlines: Overseas National, World, Saturn and others. World's military-transport volume, for example, plunged from $51 million in 1969 to $27 million last year. Hoping to make up for these losses, the nonskeds began competing even more aggressively for passenger business over the Atlantic, offering charter-flight fares as low as $180 round trip in some instances. Today the nonskeds...
...exercise their freedom is an intriguing study in psychology. White-collar workers tend to punch in late and work late; factory men usually come early and leave early. The experiment has attracted the attention of the German government, which allows most of the 1,000 employees of the Transport Ministry to arrive and leave within two-hour margins. The Bonn Cabinet will review results and decide whether to extend staggered working hours throughout the government. Unions are paying attention too. They are asking for a 2% raise for workers on staggered hours, arguing that it is justifiable repayment for lower...