Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trucks, telephone poles and paving stones. Traffic in Belfast and most other Ulster towns came to a standstill. Fruits and vegetables rotted in locked shops, and electricity shortages threatened to shut down sewage-treatment plants. In the countryside, farmers dumped thousands of gallons of milk because they lacked transport...
...training camps in Tanzania. Black rule would mean a certain end to the virtual carte blanche that Rhodesian security forces now enjoy to go guerrilla hunting in the Mozambican bush. More important, a new government in the territory's capital, Lourenço Marques, might well refuse to transport Rhodesian goods by road and rail to Indian Ocean ports-meaning economic disaster...
...this year's relief effort forestalls mass starvation, the long-term outlook for Africa's hunger belt is at best grim. A ministerial-level committee of the Sahelian nations is seeking foreign grants of $700 million to fund 126 long-range projects, such as dams, reforestation, transport networks and rebuilding of decimated herds. But the only certain means of guaranteeing that the present catastrophe will not repeat itself lies with population control rather than with food supplies...
Discharged from prison, Lou Jean Poplin-sometime beautician, full-time nudzh-must first spring her husband Clovis (William Atherton) from the minimum-security prison where he is serving a short term for sundry low crimes and misdemeanors, then help him snatch a car to transport them...
...marketable commodity than elegance. Never able to divert enough passengers from the jets, the France lost $24 million last year and could lose three times as much in 1974 because of soaring fuel costs. Thus, although the French attach great importance to symbols of national prestige, the Minister of Transport announced last week that the government could no longer "ignore the pressing economic problems of the day." The subsidies to the ship, which is two-thirds government-owned, will end this spring, and the $80 million France will be put up for sale-probably for $15 million. One possible customer...