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...Congress is moving belatedly to supply funds to equip the nation's airways and airports for the superjet age, and most of the load will fall squarely on the air traveler. By spring Congress is likely to pass legislation to raise nearly $1.8 billion a year in new revenues. The ticket tax on domestic flights will rise from 5% to 8%, and there will be a new "head tax" of $3 on passengers flying overseas and a 2% tax on air freight. The money will be used to improve airways by adding new navigation and communications aids; airports will also...
Besieged by requests for talks from Russia, Poland, East Germany and Czechoslovakia, and involved in Common Market negotiations as well, the West German Foreign Office is staggering under the work load. The pressure is especially heavy on the top five or six officials. These are the decision makers who must at once oversee contacts with the East Bloc and reassure Bonn's Western allies that nothing is being given away to the Communists...
...July 9 -The 202,000 ton supertanker, Tanksalot, breaks up off Plymouth, Massachusetts, in a storm while carrying a full load of Coca-Cola syrup. Things go better in Massachusetts Bay for the next three months...
VIETNAMIZAT10N. That the South Vietnamese are taking a bigger part of the combat load shows up in the fact that they are now taking consistently more than 80% of allied casualties. For the last week in November, U.S. deaths were down to 70, the lowest since the beginning of October. However, the enemy has been relatively quiescent in recent months; the effectiveness of Vietnamization so far has still to be seriously tested...
...having no idea at the time that Mrs. Bunting was trying to find out how well the dish machine worked. When ? student pointed out the reason for the visit, the worker answered, "Oh, if I'd known that's why she was here, I would have shown her the load of dirty trays that had just come out of the machine...