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...said the council needs a new direction. "I don't think the leadership has fos- tered the leadership this council needs," Garzasaid...
...economic planners has been provided with government funds to oversee development outside the capital. The results are visible, for example, in rapidly expanding port facilities at Dunkirk and Le Havre. Nowhere has life changed so much as along the western Riviera, where builders are hard at work on Fos-sur-Mer, a new port that will provide entry to a vast inland shipping route. By 1980, when dredging work along the Rhone and Rhine rivers is completed, vessels will be able to reach the North Sea from the Mediterranean via Fos, thus avoiding the long trip around the Iberian Peninsula...
Located 31 miles west of Marseille, Fos has already become a major unloading point for Middle East oil, is equipped with a mile-long quay for supertankers, and has attracted some $2.5 billion in private investment. Wendel-Si-delor, France's largest steel company, is building a $1.3 billion mill to turn out 7,000,000 tons a year, about one-third of the present national output. At six other points along the same stretch of Mediterranean coastline, government-built resort towns are partially complete. Over the past year they have attracted 600,000 visitors to accommodations ranging from...
...Forces. Probably not. A better guess seemed to be that Sukarno was bent on forming a new organization to rally what he calls the "NEFOS" (New Emerging Forces) against the "OLDE-FOS" (Old Established Forces) and thus put an end to "NECOLIM" (NeoColonialist Imperialism). There were those who feared that Sukarno was now in full collusion with Red China in a master plot to establish a Peking-Djakarta axis...
...Philadelphia Inquirer, the Baltimore Sun, and during the recent government crisis in Canada the Montreal and Toronto papers have also sold well. The proprietors of the newstand also reported several muffled telephone requests fos "Laramie Bomerang," but suspect some sort of practical joke...