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...this country all look alike. I call them generic trains. The little old Zephyr was all we had left. They had the last dining car. I tell you, the rest is airline food. They cook it somewhere else. On the Zephyr, you actually see real food. They crack eggs on the Zephyr. They actually peel potatoes on board...
...President, he may have started a geriatric parade at the White House that could last for the rest of the century. If he seeks and wins another term, most of his would-be successors will be old men themselves by the time they have a crack at the Oval Office...
...government's response underscored a harsh reality for supporters of Solidarity: the banned movement has never recovered from the beating it took a year ago, when militiamen first began to crack down on demonstrators. In the meantime, the government has been quietly encouraging thousands of former union activists to leave Poland for the West. Since last July, the U.S. has felt obliged to admit about 1,200 former internees and their families for humanitarian reasons...
...million voted by the House subcommittee last week will be used as partial payment for a U.S. Army plan to restructure the Salvadoran forces through training of crack infantry troops and aggressive junior officers. American advisers hope that the newly appointed Defense Minister, Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, will be better than his predecessor in adopting sophisticated tactics and strengthening morale...
...housing. "We were offered less room choices so that the incoming freshmen could be evenly distributed throughout the college system," lamented Buckner. Since juniors move out of the residential college system and into the center campus dorms under the new system, the class of 1985 will have the last crack at these dorms as well. Meanwhile, the class of '86 will benefit again, getting the first choice at rooms in the five new colleges...