Word: derailings
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Sabotage may have caused an Amtrak train to derail in Arizona Monday morning. Two notes, from a group calling itself the "Sons of the Gestapo," said the tampering had been done in "retaliation for Waco and the siege of Ruby Ridge." One person was killed and 65 wounded as several cars left the tracks and fell 30 feet down a desert ravine 60 miles southwest of Phoenix. Engineers report seeing something on the tracks just before the accident. Local authorities say 29 rail spikes that fasten the track to the cross-ties had been removed from a 19-foot section...
...memo cautions that the discussions will not "derail an existing process"--i.e., the search committee's deliberations--but rather to ensure that opinions from very different perspectives have been fully heard and discussed in a group setting...
...Chicago, a jury of seven men and five women found Illinois Congressman Mel Reynolds guilty on 12 counts of sexual assault, criminal sexual abuse, solicitation of child pornography and obstruction of justice. Translation: he had sex with an underage campaign worker and tried to derail the ensuing investigation. Reynolds faces at least four years in prison. At week's end his colleagues in the House were urging him to resign...
...keep our royal prerogative in international affairs, but are unwilling to recognize the new diplomatic environment in which we will have to exercise it. Affirming our superpower status with nuclear subs and Star Wars hardly moves us in the right direction; the Senate's resolution threatens to seriously derail our central role in the development of collective security...
Opponents of the new watered-down ordinance signalled that they would reluctantly go along with the changes and not try to derail the bill. The council, which will vote on the altered bill next Monday, is expected to pass the new version...