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Blood and urine samples from the Conrail crew indicated marijuana use by Engineer Richard Gates and Brakeman Edward Cromwell. Though the FRA has not said whether the amounts found are sufficient to prove Gates and Cromwell were intoxicated at the time, railroad workers are forbidden to work under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The National Transportation Safety Board now recommends that all trains operating between Washington and Boston be equipped with automatic braking devices that would stop a train even if engineers did not heed track signals...
...Winnebago Indian father and a Navajo Indian mother, Lonetree joined the Marines in 1980. In Moscow he was one of 30 guards at the embassy. Subject to strict rules of conduct about associating with Soviet citizens, the Marines are forbidden to leave the embassy alone without permission, although that regulation is sometimes skirted...
...said that North diverted some of the Iran arms money to the contras in Nicaragua. Presumably the funds went through a network of arms dealers, supposedly operating with private donations, who supplied weapons to the anti-Marxist rebels all through the two-year period during which Congress had forbidden direct or indirect U.S. military aid. As far as anyone can tell, the contras seem to have got very little in the way of either cash or arms out of this convoluted pipeline...
...government's response to the ad was swift. By midnight it had extended emergency press regulations to forbid publication of "any advertisement or report calculated to improve or promote the public image or esteem of an organization which is unlawful." Likewise forbidden were attempts to praise, defend, explain or justify the actions of illegal political groups. The import of the new rules was clear: any positive mention of the A.N.C. would be judged "subversive" and subject editors to a $9,000 fine, a ten-year prison term or closure of their publications...
...police showed extraordinary restraint in controlling the crowds. Authorities kept track of the marchers' progress from a dozen police vehicles equipped with two-way radios, but made no effort to block the marchers except at the State Guesthouse in western Peking, where public gatherings are strictly forbidden. The ranks began to thin when Peking University Vice President Sha Jiansun announced over a police loudspeaker that all student detainees had been released. By the time those who persisted had completed the ten-mile trip to Tiananmen Square at 3:30 a.m., the size of the crowd had dwindled to only...