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...deregulation push has split the scheduled airlines into two warring camps. Certain carriers, notably United, whose fleet of 364 planes is the nation's largest, believe they could survive and benefit from the new competition that would come if Washington threw the airline business open to any and all who wanted to enter it. But most other lines, including Eastern, are bitterly opposed. Eastern's Borman believes opening up airline service to all comers would mean "wasteful capacity wars" that would benefit the largest, strongest carriers-like United-which could expand into new routes now denied them...
...that extends exclusive U. S. fishing rights to 200 miles off the coast Thus Massachusetts seamen no longer have to compete with better-equipped foreign trawlers for the dwindling supply of flounder, cod and haddock. Appropriately, Studds boarded the buoy tender Bittersweet for the annual blessing of the fishing fleet off New Bedford-and also to remind his audience that he had cleared the waters for them...
Taiwan could probably fend off a military attack from the mainland. Taiwan's 500-plane air force, which includes advanced U.S. F-5E fighters, is considered superior to the mainland's obsolescent fleet; moreover, the Communists do not have the amphibious craft needed to land troops on the island. Still, a U.S. decision to break its formal ties with Taipei could be devastating to Taiwanese morale. But until it happens-if it does-there is no way of knowing just how serious the psychological blow to Taiwan will be if it loses, finally, its most powerful ally...
...difficult mission, but I am also confident that the moral force of what is right will prevail. When your people are informed of the truth, they will come to know the injustice that was done here some 70 years ago, simply to provide passage for a U.S. merchant fleet. The American people are a moral people, and when they learn the size of the injustice, I believe they will support the new treaty...
...brass plaque in memory of Ancestor John Carter, departed this world in 1588. Another Carter, also named John, made it to London and, in Dick Whittington fashion, became a prosperous wine merchant. As befitted a new gentleman, he applied for a coat of arms in 1612; Carter Lane, off Fleet Street, still bears his name...