Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agents, who late last week arrested Medlin in a New Orleans motel. Only $3,100 was found in his room. Medlin was turned over to authorities at a federal prison halfway house in Raleigh, N.C., where he had been serving two consecutive five-year sentences for interstate transport of stolen vehicles before escaping two months ago. Said O'Keefe, awed at Medlin's ability to flimflam network executives: "If he's a con artist, he doesn't need to be in crime. He should be in Hollywood. He would be making a million dollars a year...
...power, Muldoon's National Party will probably try to dampen inflation and reduce the $970 million balance of payments deficit by imposing import restrictions and reducing or eliminating subsidies aimed at protecting consumers from rising transport, postal and electricity costs. Promising "a year of belt tightening," Muldoon could be in for rough times with organized labor...
...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...
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...