Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appearances of legality and mask the fact that the Communists were haughtily dictating terms. President Nguyen Van Thieu, who had survived a decade of intense but disorganized political opposition while fighting a devastating war, tearfully announced his resignation. Soon afterward he departed for Taipei aboard a U.S. military transport; from there he was expected to fly into exile?possibly in England or Switzerland. Thieu was replaced by his aging and feeble Vice President, Tran Van Huong, 71. Almost immediately, the Communists imperiously declared Huong unacceptable. This development raised grave questions...
...mass exodus from Saigon really began three weeks ago, a huge Air Force C-5A transport took off for the U.S. with a load of orphans andaccompanying adults. Less than an hour later, the plane crashed in a paddy, killing 206 of the more than 300 passengers aboard. Last week TIME learned that Government investigators have agreed on the probable cause of the disaster: a defective latch on the door of the rear loading platform...
...area, hardest-hit of all by the energy crisis, faces the toughest recovery problems. Because of the high cost of fuel in New England, companies are reluctant to locate or expand there. The lessening of inflation is having a smaller effect in New England, where prices, owing to high transport costs, generally remain higher than elsewhere...
Fare cutting has spread to international routes too. British Airways is considering no-frills service on its North Atlantic runs. And in Geneva last week, members of the International Air Transport Association, the rate-setting cartel for international flights, reached an agreement that will permit carriers to continue offering scheduled flights at new bargain rates of about half the normal coach fare. If the U.S. formally approves the agreement, it will allow major American carriers to meet competition from foreign airlines without starting the wide-open rate war that some executives had feared would break out over the Atlantic this...
Outside the U.S., the London Daily Mail chartered a Boeing 707 to transport 150 orphans from Saigon. The Australian air force ferried out 212 more, who headed to Sydney, and 63 children were sent to adoption in Canada. At week's end a West German agency was still negotiating with the Saigon government to take out 50 orphans...