Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both landlocked countries, Zambia and Rhodesia were forced into an uneasy cohabitation by economic necessity. Zambia needed Rhodesia to transport half of its copper to the Indian Ocean port of Beira in Mozambique for shipment to world markets; Rhodesia needed the $25 million a year that the copper shipments brought its railroad in transit revenue. The arrangement-a triumph of pragmatism over politics-has now been scuttled by a series of guerrilla attacks by exiled black Rhodesian rebels who operate under an umbrella organization called FROLIZI (Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe-the African term for Rhodesia). After a particularly...
...they might begin arriving this week in groups of perhaps 100 to 150 at a time, and then again at intervals of about two weeks. Hanoi will be the main evacuation station for the 476 men known to be prisoners in North Viet Nam. From there, huge C-141 transport planes will fly the P.O.W.s to Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. According to the procedures of "Operation Homecoming," the men will be treated at Clark if immediate attention is required. Medics, psychiatrists and even tailors (who will outfit the men in new uniforms) are all standing by. From...
...rate (which in a competitive market economy is equal to the marginal productivity of labor) minus the external diseconomies of locating away from the cities or. $3.32 per hour (which is the current average factory wage for all industries) minus 50 cents to 75 cents per hour (in extra transport charges and operating expenses for those industries which are best suited for location in the country) equals $90 to $100 per week. People would build their own houses (of an average size of two bedrooms and one bath, plus a kitchen and a living room) and transportation to work would...
...orderly legal environment which is the first pre-requisite for investments in the all important manufacturing sector. And it means transforming our military aid and assistance programs into new programs of aid and assistance directed towards the creation of the necessary infra-structure, in terms of regional power, transport, and communication facilities. If these things were done, it would leave only agricultural reform, and local infra-structure (both of which can and should be undertaken at the local level, under local initiative, as a way to insure popular participation) in order to complete the precondition for industrial development, and prepare...
...comparison is somewhat distorted by a $10 million refund on Pan Ain's supersonic transport order that reduced Pan Am s reported loss last year...