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...period in labor disputes affecting the national welfare. On the Isle of Man last week, delegates to the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions' convention warned against interference in industrial relations. "The unions," shouted one speaker, "will not be led like lambs to the slaughter!" A national dock strike set for July 14 could paralyze Britain's crucial export trade...
Yarom knew full well that the largest ship in the Israeli navy could have fitted comfortably on the Wasp's flight deck. The Israeli navy includes one frigate, one destroyer, four submarines and twelve missile boats. Five of the missile boats were spirited away from a Cherbourg dock last Christmas in an escape that caused international excitement. Egypt, by comparison, has five destroyers, twelve submarines and 20 missile boats divided between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. A sixth destroyer was sunk by Israeli planes in retaliation for an Egyptian attack on an Israeli fishing boat...
...equally ignored was the fact that despite the gloss of affluence over London, and despite Manchester's massive ?250 million urban-renewal program, too much of the north-and other areas too-feels neglected by the planners in the capital. In the gloom of Glasgow tenements, the shoddy dock areas of Liverpool and in blackened, beaten-down Leeds, the shadows thicken. "People are fed up," says Liberal Candidate Willis Pickard in Edinburgh, "with being run from Westminster and Whitehall." Over the entire north, unemployment has risen from 2% four years ago to 5.2% last year. Half the unemployed...
Pennsylvania heavyweight crew coach Ted Nash, whose obsession in life for the past few years has been to put a permanent end to the Harvard dynasty, stood on the Weld Boathouse dock yesterday with the smile of a man who sees his goal very much within reach...
Nash, who coached the Penn freshmen last year, was wearing a souvenir cap from the 1968 Olympic Trials on the dock after the race, and despite urging from Sports Illustrated staffer Hugh Whall, he was quite noncommittal about Penn's prospects at the Sprints next weekend...