Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...requests from both Egypt and Israel for aid beyond the amounts involved in supporting the treaty. The defense ministers of both nations arrived in Washington last week to present their shopping lists. Egypt is seeking help to buy 600 M-60 tanks, 300 F-16 fighter aircraft, 70 transport planes, and up to eight destroyers or submarines. In nonmilitary aid, Egypt wants funds for housing, agricultural production and a new telephone system. In arms alone, Israel wants various tanks, naval guns, missile systems and armored personnel carriers...
DIED. Nelson Morgan Davis, 72, eccentric Canadian businessman; of drowning; in Phoenix. A native Ohioan who moved to Toronto in 1929, Davis amassed a fortune estimated at $100 million with a string of manufacturing and transport companies. He once paid $10,000 to have a meteorite that landed near Cleveland crushed and sent to Toronto to cover his driveway with its dust-free gravel and keep visitors from tracking dirt into his living room...
Joseph N. Tremml, vice-president of Transport Engineering Co., which sold the four buses to Harvard in 1974, said yesterday the buses should last for ten years if used twice daily like most schoolbuses. "I don't know of anybody in the nation who uses that bus as much as Harvard does," he said...
...Vietnamese also have an advantage in supply and transport. Because of shortages of trucks and freight cars, the Chinese are reported to have brought some supplies to the combat area by horse-drawn vehicles. While the Chinese army moves primarily on foot, the Vietnamese forces have plenty of modern transport, much of it seized from...
...Prime Minister Ian Smith drew from the episode was only a bit less strained. He charged that the U.S. and Britain were in part responsible for the RH-827 tragedy because they encouraged terrorism by their failure to support the Smith-led government. The reaction of Co-Minister of Transport James Chikerema, a former guerrilla leader, was more straightforward. Said he: "It is a tragedy so serious that if it is established again that Nkomo's people did it, Nkomo should not weep if we retaliate...