Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stockpiled in Kampala awaiting buyers. "They can still grow export crops," says a U.N. agronomist, "but uncertain delivery dates and past failure to live up to contracts have turned buyers off. They can't count on supplies any more, so they have counted Uganda out." The trouble is transport to market. Only 1 in 20 trucks registered in Uganda moves...
Only the Kabalega Falls National Park on the banks of the White Nile shows signs of life. Hippos snort still in the muddy waters-though many have been shot out for greasy "hippoburgers" -and crocodiles abound, well fed by the bodies that get regularly dumped into the river. Ground transport is almost totally lacking. Less than 5% of Uganda's total bus fleet is operable; breakdowns are permanent because no spare parts are available...
Brock suddenly becomes the indispensable man in the middle. Satan needs the Limbo Line to transport cannon across the bottomless mud of the gluttons' Third Circle. The archangel Michael, ready to wage another Miltonic war against Satan, needs the railroad to carry his chariot of fire across the same...
Blair proposes a tough remedy. At present, the big companies control each stage of the petroleum process: pumping, transport, refining, marketing. Blair would break them up into companies specializing in only one phase of the petroleum process. Ideally, each company would then haggle over price each time the oil changed hands and would thus unleash free-market forces that would push prices down...
Traveling by helicopter, STOL transport and on foot through dense and hidden areas, Hernández Toledo's army so far has arrested 770 people and uprooted or destroyed 1,214 fields of amapola poppies and 419 stands of marijuana on "farms" that sometimes cover 30 acres. But there are at least another 11,000 places to be attacked before the job is completed. The general will do well to obliterate 85% of the dope fields in this annual exercise, since many are carefully camouflaged in the mountains to protect them from the scourgelike troops and from effective baths...