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Israeli-supplied conventional arms sales and licensing agreements with South Africa include the following: Reshef-class gunboats armed with Gabriel missiles; Dabur coastal portal boats; hardened steel for South Africa's armored corps; self-propelled 105 mm howitzers; air-to-air rockets; anti-tank missiles; assault rifles; radar bases; and surveillance equipment...45 percent of Israeli arms exports between 1970 and 1979 were naval ships. South Africa purchased 35 percent of the ships exported...
...survives, it may grow up deformed, with some parts of the economy performing far worse than others. Onerous interest rates could stall comebacks by the housing and auto industries. The high cost of borrowing money could depress capital spending and thus continue to devastate key business sectors such as steel, construction equipment and machine tools, which have barely begun to climb out of a deep slump...
...benefits of high residential concentration and to reduce urban sprawl and the cost of commuting. But they also want single-family houses with architectural diversity and some private greenery around them. Wines would take these separate homes, yards and all, and stick them into eight-to ten-story-high steel-and-concrete frameworks to create "plots...
Fred Korematsu was a name that had lived in constitutional infamy. The Oakland-born steel welder refused to obey a 1942 military order banning all people of Japanese ancestry from San Leandro, Calif. As a result, he was called a "Jap spy" in a newspaper headline, sentenced to five years' probation and removed to a detention camp. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld his conviction and the evacuation order, thereby enshrining his name as a legal landmark. Later, when many began to question the internment of 100,000 Japanese-American citizens, Korematsu vs. United States was known to jurists...
DIED. Lloyd McBride, 67, unassuming president of the United Steelworkers since 1977 who skillfully but futilely fought to salvage the jobs of some 700,000 union members in the fading domestic steel industry; following heart surgery; in Whitehall, Pa. After quitting school at 14, he went to work in a St. Louis foundry for 250 an hour, became an active unionist who rose through the ranks and survived a bitter insurgency fight to inherit I.W. Abel's mantle only to see the Steelworkers' membership plummet by half during his term from a 1979 high of 1.4 million...