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...guarantee that the buses and trains will run New Year's Eve," said Roger Ford, an official in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's (MBTA) Special Operations division...
...Ford said the MBTA will rely on two jet engine generators in South Boston as sources of power to keep 80 percent of its system running indefinitely should it break down. Fuel trucks and 300 buses will provide additional support...
...realize we can't abandon the field. As a former Connecticut state legislator and two-time Democratic nominee for Congress, Niedermeier can probably take care of herself. But there are plenty of women out there with fewer resources who can't. Just last week the women at two Ford Motor Co. plants finally got the firm to acknowledge that life for them had been hellish--that they should no longer be subjected to obscene graffiti, verbal and physical abuse and retaliation for complaining about it. In a settlement, Ford agreed to pay them nearly $8 million and to ensure that...
Violence is not new to East Timor, an arid territory about the size of Connecticut. Colonized by the Portuguese in the 16th century for its sandalwood, and predominantly Catholic, it was invaded by Indonesian troops in December 1975 with the tacit consent of President Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Jakarta's forces met bitter resistance--some 200,000 East Timorese died as a result of the occupation, and Indonesia's annexation of East Timor was never recognized...
...past, America's East Timor policy has been nothing to be proud of; President Ford tacitly condoned the 1975 invasion and succeeding administrations have pumped Indonesia with military aid in the years since. But thus far in the current crisis, the Clinton administration has done a good job prodding Indonesia along the road to peace in East Timor. Pressure from the U.S., Indonesia's second-largest trading partner after Japan, helped convince Habibie to agree to a referendum in the first place and to permit peacekeepers. It may again prove invaluable as the specifics of the UN mission are worked...