Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airlines, international hotel companies and travel agents stand to be hurt by the higher costs of traveling abroad, which vacationers are already beginning to bear (see page 13). International air fares will not immediately go up as a consequence of dollar devaluation. The 108-member International Air Transport Association must unanimously approve any changes in the basic fare structure, and the members will not be able to agree on any increases for at least several months...
...advantage of cut-rate fares and jetting to Europe this summer, executives of 40 international airlines voluntarily grounded themselves in Montreal. In 40 days of meetings they tried to reach an agreement on a new set of transatlantic fares to be charged by all members of the International Air Transport Association (I.A.T.A.). The 108-member cartel has dictated the price of international air travel for 26 years, but by the time the meeting adjourned last week, it was no longer dictating. It had managed to work out a complex compromise, and the agreement may come apart before the summer ends...
...with all the American tourists flooding the country? In one week last month, nine relatives from the U.S., four close friends and two friends of distant cousins were in Israel. With jumbo jets disgorging hundreds at a time, and more than 100 flights per day going in and out, Transport Minister Shimon Peres complains, "We prepared for 3,000 tourists a day. We did not expect 10,000." Tourism in the occupied territories, from
...whom man, in his need, may challenge, asking why he has forsaken him . . . And so man to whom the divine countenance is lifted bursts out into the exultant profession: The Lord is God': this God of Love, he alone is God! . . . Everything earthly lies so far behind the transport of eternity in this confession that it is difficult to imagine that a way can lead back from here into the circuit of the year...
...largest outfit is the tactical airlift wing at Ching Chuan Kang, made up of about 4,500 men and four airlift squadrons with a total authorized capacity of 64 Hercules C-130 aircraft, used to transport troops, medical evacuees and heavy equipment. There are also about 1,300 men headquartered at Shu Lin Kou Air Station and a detachment of two F-4 Phantoms at Tainan. Nuclear weapons locations are, of course, among the most highly classified secrets, but it is almost certain that there are none on Taiwan...