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There was a time when the 33,000-ton passenger liner Leonardo da Vinci was one of the Italian Line's gems. Last week, after the ship had sat idle for two years in the port of La Spezia, fire broke out on board; when the flames were doused four days later, the Leonardo had leaned over on its starboard side and settled in 40 ft. of water in the port's main channel...
Human failings have been even more detrimental. In Kenya, says a U.N. expert, "90% of the trouble comes from bad marketing policies." Following a bumper crop of corn in 1978, the Kenya government overconfidently slashed prices paid to farmers by nearly 30% and sold more than 200,000 tons of grain on the export market. It also agreed to supply 8,000 tons of emergency food to Uganda, where the harvest had been destroyed during the chaos of Tanzania's war against Idi Amin. When last year's cereal crop fell short by 400,000 tons, largely because...
...Since reunification in 1975, the rate of inflation in Hanoi has gone up 100%. In Saigon, the annual inflation rate is a staggering 350%; unemployment is 20%. A combination of bad weather and bureaucratic bungling has left Viet Nam with a succession of crop failures and a 2 million-ton annual shortfall of food. Compared with 1976, last year's paper production was down by 16% and textiles...
...course. Every time they took their hats off, the women plebes would scramble around picking up their belongings. "You would have thought that they would have looked into the uniforms before we came here," grumbles one of the women. "The jackets they gave us made us look like ten-ton trucks...
...challenge of going to the aid of the hostages seems well within the capabilities of the aircraft. With its two turboshaft engines, it can carry an eight-ton payload. In one configuration, it can seat 37 combat troops. With extra, disposable fuel tanks, the aircraft has a range of up to 800 miles, and even this can be extended by airborne refueling. Last week the chopper had to fly only 500 nautical miles. But theoretical ranges can be reduced by a number of factors: extra-heavy loads, such as weapons and other equipment carried by last week's rescue...