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...complete round trip from Lisbon to Biafra takes 30 hours, so two pilots and two flight engineers sleeping in shifts are on every flight, he says. The planes generally fly straight from Lisbon to Biafra, unload and then fly to Bisau, Portuguese Guinea, or St. Isabel or St. Tome, Fernando Po (also Portuguese). Once there, they sometimes fly a short triangle, carrying only food, between Biafra, Bisau, and Fernando Po before returning to Lisbon...
Marie meets up with Spider, a Sunday-school-tongued, sweet-guy Mafioso whose aim in life is to do good by negative actions. Spider halts the installation of Muzak broadcasting in the subways by threatening to unload garbage on the Muzak man's beach. Marie does her bit by joining a major political party and then subverting the party hacks by persuading slum dwellers to organize a rent strike. There are other liberal, square attacks on the illiberal squares, among them the rout of a women's march protesting the establishment of a neighborhood clinic for drug addicts...
...trip, sponsored by "A Quaker Action Group," turned to North Vietnam, after the government of South Vietnam had refused to allow Phoenix to unload its material in Danang and again at Saigon. In both ports, what Brazton called "mysterious accidental collisions" with South Vietnamese patrol boats resulted in damage to the Quaker ship...
...Great Lakes, 71 ocean-going ships were stranded behind strikebound locks, able to load or unload cargoes as far inland as Chicago but unable to return to sea. Another 72 vessels were stalled at the Montreal end of the 2,342-mile waterway, and dozens more clogged smaller ports as far away as Trois Riveres, 80 miles downstream. Canadian railroads stopped wheat shipments to such key outlets as Port Arthur and Fort William on Lake Superior. Toronto shippers laid off 500 longshoremen. Executive Director Andrew W. Fleming of the Detroit-Wayne County Port Commission estimated that...
FLEMING says several plainclothes policemen tried to stop his group from unloading their equipment by invoking a Blue Law that made it illegal to unload non-perishable goods from commercial vehicles on Sunday. He says they called Channel 5 News, and when the cameras arrived, the police left...