Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This time, the MBTA is trying to relocate the so-called "car barns" on a site in the Penn Central yards in South Boston. In preliminary talks with the Penn Central, MBTA officials have proposed trading other land the MBTA owns in the area for the 12-acre site where they want to put the car barns...
Reviewing the history of the relocation attempts, the MBTA's "master plan" released in February noted that the Mattapan Square site had not been the authority's first choice, suggested the Penn Central site, and concluded, "the entire matter is now under review...
...days after the master plan was released, a report leaked out that the MBTA was considering a tract of land in South Braintree. Local officials there protested, and it now appears that the South Braintree site has fallen out of favor with the MBTA, leaving the Penn Central yards as the prime prospect for the car barns...
...hasten his departure more than anything else was a challenge from East Pakistan's popular Sheik Mujibur Rahman. The impatient "Mujib" threatened to carry to the National Assembly his demands for purbodesh, a kind of associate statehood, for East Pakistan's Bengalis, which would seriously weaken the central government in Rawalpindi. If Mujib's East Pakistanis had their way, Ayub feared, what would prevent similar demands in West Pakistan that the province be carved up into four separate states? Aware for the first time that he might lose control of his once rubber-stamp National Assembly, Ayub...
...works performed and praised; commissions were starting to come in. That June however, Yun and his wife vanished from their home in West Berlin. They turned up next as prisoners facing a treason trial in their native South Korea. They had been abducted by agents of the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency, who at the time were rounding up South Korean intellectuals and students by the dozen in Europe as alleged spies. The Yuns were accused of having visited North Korean officials in East Germany and of having made a trip through Siberia to North Korea itself-purportedly under...