Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another observer, spotting a bus-trailer combine on a dusty back road in India, ? guessed that it must be a fancy transport for carrier pigeons. Equally baffled reactions greet Rotels wherever they turn up, from Tehran to Tierra del Fuego. Rotels? It is short for "rolling hotels," which may be the ultimate in no frill, if-it's-Tuesday-it-must-be-Kenya world travel...
...solve Mozambique's economic problems. Of its 8 million people, 80% live in rural areas and 90% are illiterate. With only about 1,000 trained administrators, both black and white, Frelimo will have a hard time running a country twice the size of California. Rail and road transport are already breaking down, and internal communications are chaotic. Even some of Machel's "dynamization committees," set up all over the country to sell the people on the new life in Mozambique, have broken up in disagreement. Hundreds of once trusted cadres have been sent out in disgrace to rural...
...Mozambican rail lines and ports to handle 80% of its exports -is another matter. Though he said nothing about a blockade last week, Machel seems certain to shut off Rhodesia's vital transit trade sooner or later. That would cost Mozambique about $50 million a year in transport revenues, but might also topple the hated white regime in Salisbury. "The struggle in Zimbabwe," he said last week, using the African name for Rhodesia, "is our struggle...
Garvin's corporate background is in transport, refining and marketing as well as chemicals-areas of the business that are increasingly important to Exxon now that governments in the Middle East and Latin America are squeezing the profits out of petroleum production. Garvin was marked as a comer at Exxon in the early 1960s. In 1965 he took over the company's chemical operations and helped turn them into the fastest-growing part of Exxon's business...
...gesture of evenhandedness. Although the Overseas Ministry is technically sub-Cabinet, Prentice was allowed to keep his Cabinet rank when Home Secretary Roy Jenkins threatened to resign over his fellow moderate's demotion. The Prentice move displaced Leftist Judith Hart, who was offered the Ministry of Transport but turned it down in pique. "I fear we are witnessing the first dangerous stages of what could prove to be a historic catastrophe for the Labor Party," she said, in an emotional speech to Parliament. The post she rejected was left temporarily vacant when Transport Minister Fred Mulley moved over...