Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Customs officials will check the bags at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport, where almost all diplomatic mail arrives as air freight. Eventually, provisions will be made to inspect pouches arriving by sea, train or automobile from third countries. The metal detectors, however, have one major flaw: they cannot detect whether any plastic explosives are packed in the diplomatic pouches...
...Southern, the nation's fourth largest railway, conceded defeat last week in its 18-month-long bid to buy Conrail, the now profitable Government- owned rail system. Early last year Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole had selected Norfolk Southern as the best qualified of 15 bidders to buy Conrail's freight-hauling business for $1.2 billion. Last February the Senate approved, and the much bruited merger seemed to be on track...
...long term the black states can reduce their dependence on the South African ports of Durban and Port Elizabeth by developing alternative trade routes, like the existing but inadequate highway and rail line between Zambia and the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam. Zimbabwe will begin to divert freight from South Africa to Mozambique over roads and rail lines that are frequently sabotaged by Mozambican rebels supported from inside South Africa. But for the moment Pretoria's black neighbors are exceedingly vulnerable...
ITALY. Border patrols halted 32 freight cars loaded with cattle, sheep and horses from Poland and Austria for nearly a week before forcing them to return. Worried inspectors found abnormally high levels of radiation in many of the 908 animals in the shipment. Italy later banned imports of meat, livestock and vegetables from most of Eastern Europe...
...situation in the houses is almost as bad. Only Leverett, Quincy, and Cabot are even partially accessible. In order to reach the Quincy dining room, disabled students must take a freight elevator in the kitchen. Leverett Towers have elevators but these only go to the even floors. "I have to choose my friends on the even floors only," quipped Wallace, a Leverett resident. "Other people can visit their friends...