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...cross the Gunpowder River bridge north of Baltimore. Amtrak's twelve-car Washington-to- Boston Colonial, carrying 616 passengers, was speeding along at 105 m.p.h. or more. A Conrail train, consisting of three engines, was headed for Harrisburg, Pa. After the Conrail engineer apparently failed to heed a "distant signal" alerting him to slow down, he was unable to respond to a second stop signal and slid directly into the path of the onrushing Amtrak. The passenger train slammed into the rearmost Conrail engine, which exploded. The Amtrak engine caught fire and flipped on its side into a ditch, followed...
...given climactic form to the image of the bad machine, a Moloch bent on destruction and alienation, that had haunted the imagination of artists and writers through the 19th century. No one was going to see the machine as an unqualified good. But America's role in that distant war had been small, its trauma of human loss slight. With industry booming, Americans found it not just easy but almost obligatory to believe in machine- created Utopias. Their country, wrote the photographer Paul Strand in 1922, was the "supreme altar of the new God," a trinity formed...
...season plane crash. He was a Li'l Abner from a piney-woods logging town, neither of them very easy for a black man to reach. But Erving got to Ladner, and he got to Necaise Crossing. "That was a memory, right there," he says with a distant look...
Looming in the background is the Soviet Union, and its distant rival, the United States. In the inevitable struggle of internal political forces to succeed Khomeini, the potential of Soviet intervention cannot be completely ruled out. The 1921 treaty with Iran could be invoked to justify such an intervention on the grounds that chaos in Iran endangers Soviet security. If the 1979 Afghanistan scenario unfolds in Iran, the U.S. will be compelled to act in order to "cut its losses." It may be done through a tacit partition of Iran so that the Soviets could not reach the Persian Gulf...
...rebels, then met their leaders at a church in La Palma, a town in guerrilla-held territory. Buoyed by generous aid from the U.S., Duarte vowed to revitalize the country's moribund economy. Today, however, an end to both the simmering war and the deepening economic crisis seems a distant possibility...