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...globe, some of them in the U.S. Newborn chicks can live for no more than three days without feeding, which is prohibitively expensive during transport. Thus air freight is essential for Shaver's business. Says a company official: "For the moment we are managing, but if U.S. flights halt, that could start backing up Canadian flights, and we would be in trouble...
...Stanislaw Kania was reported to be packing his bags for a possible meeting with Leonid Brezhnev at the Soviet President's Crimean resort. At week's end, the government declared it would not pay workers who had struck, and the trade union Solidarity called for a temporary halt to the protests until its leaders could assess the situation...
Throughout the talks, the escalating violence in the Middle East was on the leaders' minds. Their foreign ministers, meeting concurrently at Montebello, leaned on Haig to get the U.S. to apply more pressure on Israel to halt its air strikes into Lebanon. Reagan's top advisers met in Haig's suite and decided to urge the President to order the indefinite suspension of delivery of ten F-16 fighters that Israel had been promised. Trudeau also publicly criticized "the scale of destruction, particularly in Lebanon." Reagan agreed to delay the airplane deliveries while the fighting continued...
...House bill also contains a proviso that would halt Watt's tentative plan to sell the oil and gas rights to four oceanic basins off the northern California coast. The tracts are in the middle of rich commercial fishing grounds and are home to several species of threatened marine life. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that the basins contain only about 300 million bbl. of crude, or roughly twelve days' worth of the nation's oil needs. Environmentalists have been joined in the battle to prevent sale by some conservative Republicans, who feel that the auction would...
...University of Michigan scientist does not deny that some effects may require costly remedies. To halt coastal erosion, dikes will have to be built, and a steadily rising water table may require protection for monuments like the Temple of Karnak. It will be still more difficult to get the 100,000 Nubians displaced by the big lake to adapt to the unfamiliar life of settled farmers on newly arable lands. But even with these problems, Mancy, who first gazed lovingly on the Nile as a youth in Cairo, remains enthusiastic. "Would I build the dam again?" he asks rhetorically...