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Imitating Harry Truman, Ford whistle-stopped by railroad through Michigan over the weekend. But unlike "Give 'Em Hell" Harry, he did not turn his listeners on much. His style was reassuring but plodding and predictable. Sometimes defending his record, sometimes sounding almost as anti-Washington as Jimmy Carter, the President often seemed to say the right thing the wrong way. Earlier, at a shopping center in a Detroit suburb, the audience started to drift off as soon as he began talking...
Like ripples on a pond, the shock waves of Tagliamento quivered outward in a broad circle. In Venice, the campanile of St. Mark's trembled and the lagoon waters suddenly roiled. In Pisa, the Leaning Tower vibrated-but held its precarious tilt. On the Venice-Vienna railroad line, a train suddenly derailed as the tracks weaved out from under it. Shakes and masonry cracks were reported as far away as Frankfurt, Munich and the French town of Nancy...
Timber men are looking to Congress for relief. If the Monongahela decision is applied nationally, they say, the results would surely include: 1) a 10% drop in production of softwood, 2) the layoff of 130,000 workers, 3) shortages of everything from hardwood railroad ties to toilet paper, and 4) average increases of $2,400 in the cost of wood for a single-family home-enough to hurt the home-building industry, which is finally pulling out of its recession. In addition, the industry and the Forest Service argue that clear-cutting makes good conservation sense. It is little different...
...South Africans. Possibly mistaking the newcomers for plainclothes security forces, the guerrillas immediately opened fire, killing three male cyclists and wounding their 19-year-old woman companion. At the same time, the guerrillas detonated a grenade atop a land mine placed under the tracks of the Rhodesia-South Africa railroad-just as a freight train was passing. The blast derailed the train and destroyed a section of the track. Three days later, terrorists fired at a farmer in a passing car, wounding him in the shoulder...
...railroad-which is now patrolled by security guards on foot-was back in operation within 24 hours. But the terrorist attack will probably be costly to Rhodesia's already struggling economy; it could discourage visitors from South Africa, who contribute heavily to Rhodesia's $40 million-a-year tourist industry. The incidents also clearly illustrated the vulnerability of Rhodesia's lifelines to South Africa, which have become even more important since Mozambique closed its borders with Rhodesia last month (see following story). In fact, Salisbury now depends on the South African rail link...