The Week

Hate to say it, but Amtrak isn’t doing so good. For instance, its schedules call for eastbound passengers to transfer from a Santa Fe to a Missouri Pacific train at Kansas City. The Santa Fe train arrives at 5:35 a.m., five minutes after the Missouri Pacific has departed, causing passengers to endure a 23 hour and 55 minute layover. Then there’s a nice mixup in Chicago: Amtrak published a toll-free number which patrons might dial for information on Burlington Northern trains. The number turned out to be that of the Greyhound Bus depot. So where’s Mussolini now that we need him?

The defeat of the Mansfield Amendment was followed closely by more good news for NATO. The Defense Planning Committee of NATO has decided to increase naval strength in the Mediterranean to match the increase in the last few years of Soviet strength (American officials have reported that Soviet ship-days at sea increased from 650 in 1964 to twenty thousand last year). Some of the planned increases: the United States has promised to add another helicopter carrier to the Sixth Fleet and to improve electronic detection equipment aboard the Sixth Fleet’s aircraft carriers; Britain has proposed that the “on-call” naval force composed of American, British, Italian, Greek and Turkish destroyers be made a permanent combat unit, instead of just deploying once or twice a year; Britain has also promised to place a six hundred man commando force on Malta, as a supplement to the U.S. Marines currently in the Mediterranean area.

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Hate to say it, but Amtrak isn’t doing so good. For instance, its schedules call for eastbound passengers to transfer from a Santa Fe to a Missouri Pacific train at Kansas City. The Santa Fe train arrives at 5:35 a.m., five minutes after the Missouri Pacific has departed, causing passengers to endure a 23 hour and 55 minute layover. Then there’s a nice mixup in Chicago: Amtrak published a toll-free number which patrons might dial for information on Burlington Northern trains. The number turned out to be that of the Greyhound Bus depot. So where’s Mussolini now that we need him?

The defeat of the Mansfield Amendment was followed closely by more good news for NATO. The Defense Planning Committee of NATO has decided to increase naval strength in the Mediterranean to match the increase in the last few years of Soviet strength (American officials have reported that Soviet ship-days at sea increased from 650 in 1964 to twenty thousand last year). Some of the planned increases: the United States has promised to add another helicopter carrier to the Sixth Fleet and to improve electronic detection equipment aboard the Sixth Fleet’s aircraft carriers; Britain has proposed that the “on-call” naval force composed of American, British, Italian, Greek and Turkish destroyers be made a permanent combat unit, instead of just deploying once or twice a year; Britain has also promised to place a six hundred man commando force on Malta, as a supplement to the U.S. Marines currently in the Mediterranean area.